{"id":2339,"date":"2018-12-23T04:52:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T18:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/top-10-tips-flying-kids-mum-industry-professional\/"},"modified":"2021-10-18T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T02:21:11","slug":"top-10-tips-flying-kids-mum-industry-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/top-10-tips-flying-kids-mum-industry-professional\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Tips for travelling with kids from a Mum and industry professional"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u2018Enjoy the journey not just the destination\u2019 is an inspiring life metaphor that helps us remember that its what we enjoy along the way that counts. However, when it comes to the physical act of travelling, especially with kids, this can be far from true.<\/p>\n
Every family looks forward to holidays and even more so if it means your little ones get to experience flying! Flying with kids is a daunting prospect but speak to any well-travelled Mum and they will be able to give you a quick-fire list of hacks to make your life easier and your families journey more pleasant.<\/p>\n
Even for parents who have travelled frequently before children, it can be a whole new ball game once you take you first trip with your child. To mellow out this learning curve we spoke Mum of 2 Jade who know plenty about flying with children. Aside from having taken her own kids on countless flights, Jade is cabin crew for Qantas so has really seen it all. We caught up with this Mum With Wings to get her top 10 tips to do before flying with kids:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe key is to think ahead<\/em> and be prepared,<\/em> you know best the needs of your children. There is only so much the crew can do once in the air. What you do before the flight is the game changer.<\/p>\n Here are my top 10 tips of things to do before you travel with children \u2013 from my family to yours:\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTravelling with your family is an amazing thing to do and I want everyone to experience it. If you do these 10 things I mentioned before flying with children you will be prepared and organised for a great flight with your family. Safe travels.\u201d<\/p>\n Jade is the Mum With Wings. A mother of 2 from Mornington Peninsula, Victoria who has been an international flight attendant for over ** years. Even outside of work this busy Mum loves to travel and when she had children that passion did not get pushed aside. Now Jade shares her own experiences as a travelling mother in an effort to inspire and help other families to get out there and travel as much as she does. Find out more: http:\/\/www.mumwithwings.com.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018Enjoy the journey not just the destination\u2019 is an inspiring life metaphor that helps us remember that its what we enjoy along the way that counts. However, when it comes to the physical act of travelling, especially with kids, this can be far from true. Every family looks forward to holidays and even more so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/custom-post-st.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholekids.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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