Take-Along Travels with Baby: Hundreds of Tips to Help During Travel with Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler

From the author of the award-winning guide Travels with Baby comes this pocket-size survival manual for parents traveling with small children. Packed with hundreds of on-the-go tips, parents get quick access to the information and advice they need as they travel, including: babyproofing hotel rooms or vacation rentals on arrival, keeping babies happy in the back seat, managing toddlers on airplanes, translating various baby items and conversions while traveling abroad, and finding medical help or remedies far from home.

Age-appropriate games and activities also help keep babies, toddlers, and preschoolers entertained in transit. Plus special sections help parents organize their travel details for each trip and also make it easy to fill in the blanks and log favorite family moments along the way.

I am a HUGE fan of the book Travels with Babies (you can see my previous posts) and I often buy it as a gift and recommend it regularly on parent listservs where there is always someone asking a traveling with baby question. The book has been a useful resource to me and my family; one that I have referred to time and again over the years.

In fact, I am such a fan of Travels with Babies, that I was skeptical that I would need this take-along pocket guide.

Well, I got a copy anyway and I am glad that I did! I use Travels with Babies as I am preparing for a trip, but let's face it, I don't have room in my overstuffed bags to carry it with me although I have often thought, if I had the time, I'd photocopy a few pages to bring with me.

Well this pocket guide is PERFECT! It fits in my purse or carry on and here is what I like about it: (1) It has all the useful checklists including a section on medical emergencies which you need not on your bookshelf back home but with you during your medical emergency wherever you are. (2) It has all kinds of creative games and strategies for entertaining your child while traveling.

Again, you might have thought about all kinds of things to do to keep your child entertained but when they burn through your ideas in the first 20min of a transatlantic flight, my creative juices seem to melt at a slightly faster pace than my child's meltdown. Must have the list in your carry on! (3) This Take-Along edition is dotted with reminders that you are on VACATION! travel tips for toddlers

 While getting from A to B you might as well enjoy the process. There is a section in the end to record funny things your child says and I love the suggestion of buying postcards and asking you child to draw pictures or ask them what they would like to say about the trip to family back home.

 I sometimes forget how wonderful and different my child's perspective is on things and what amazing things I learn about her (ahem, and me!) if I just ask. So to summarize: I think you need the book AND the Take-Along version. Happy travels!

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