• Designate a large, soft bag as the toy tote. Fill it with simple games, toys, puzzles, books, and similar items.
• Take along a cleanup kit that includes plastic trash bags, paper towels, and a travel pack of disposable wet wipes.
• Take along easy-to-eat snack foods such as cereal, fruit slices, and juice boxes.
• If you are traveling by air with a child under age 2, take a child restraint seat. Board early, giving yourself time to get situated.
• When taking long car trips with young children, go to bed early the night before and start out long before dawn. This pretty much ensures that the kids will sleep through a major portion of the day's drive.
• To keep bickering between siblings to a minimum, give the children three strikes at the outset of the trip. If any child bickers with another, all of the children are penalized a strike. When you arrive at your destination, if the children have not used all three strikes, they are allowed to do something special.
• For trips where you'll stay at the same hotel or resort for multiple days, choose one with separate educational and recreational programs for children as well as child-sitting services.
• Pack children's shoes inside adult shoes to save space.
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