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I traveled like this with my family with 1 kid and a pregnant wife as well as with two young kids. I really enjoyed how having young kids acted as an ice break

by dwiel 10y ago

I traveled like this with my family with 1 kid and a pregnant wife as well as with two young kids. I really enjoyed how having young kids acted as an ice breaker with people in other countries. We tried to stay in each place for at least a week at a time. We're wanting to settle down a little more now so we can have a stable social life and do more things like gardening, but I also know someone who has 3 kids and lives out of an rv with his family.

sanderjd 10y ago
I'm curious: what did your kids do in a foreign country while you were working?
- dwiel 10y ago
  When one was only 1.5 years old, she mostly just stayed in a carrier on my wife's back while she explored the area, going on day trips and running errands like buying groceries (which in a foreign country can be fun on its own). When we had a 1 year old and a 3 year old, we were nomadic for about 2 months and we mostly found an airbnb for a week-month and drove on the weekends. During the day, the kids and wife would go to local playgrounds, public libraries, state parks, national parks, beaches and kids museums (a membership at one gets you a membership at most in the US). Now that our oldest is about start kindergarten, we're more interested in staying in one place so she can make longer lasting friends, but when they were younger it was a lot of fun. The sweet spot for us was when they were too young to walk and could ride in the carrier for hours on end, or old enough to walk well and be interested in more activities and places. In between was harder: not wanting to be carried, but not really capable of walking for more than a few hundred feet at a time.
  - sanderjd 10y ago
    Nice, thanks for the info! Sounds like this would be hard if both parents want to work. (Of course, that's hard in general.)
    - dwiel 10y ago
      Yeah for sure, though one of the places we stayed at in Guatemala would have taken our daughter for an English-speaking preschool had we wanted, though it was an area with a lot of people who had immigrated from Europe and the us.

by dwiel 10y ago

sanderjd 10y ago

I'm curious: what did your kids do in a foreign country while you were working?

dwiel 10y ago
When one was only 1.5 years old, she mostly just stayed in a carrier on my wife's back while she explored the area, going on day trips and running errands like buying groceries (which in a foreign country can be fun on its own). When we had a 1 year old and a 3 year old, we were nomadic for about 2 months and we mostly found an airbnb for a week-month and drove on the weekends. During the day, the kids and wife would go to local playgrounds, public libraries, state parks, national parks, beaches and kids museums (a membership at one gets you a membership at most in the US). Now that our oldest is about start kindergarten, we're more interested in staying in one place so she can make longer lasting friends, but when they were younger it was a lot of fun. The sweet spot for us was when they were too young to walk and could ride in the carrier for hours on end, or old enough to walk well and be interested in more activities and places. In between was harder: not wanting to be carried, but not really capable of walking for more than a few hundred feet at a time.
- sanderjd 10y ago
  Nice, thanks for the info! Sounds like this would be hard if both parents want to work. (Of course, that's hard in general.)
  - dwiel 10y ago
    Yeah for sure, though one of the places we stayed at in Guatemala would have taken our daughter for an English-speaking preschool had we wanted, though it was an area with a lot of people who had immigrated from Europe and the us.