Parenting & Travel tips

>The work isn’t dou­ble. It’s exponential!

Not the most encour­ag­ing words from a friend after hav­ing their sec­ond child.

Espe­cial­ly when I had start­ed get­ting used to the idea of being a fam­i­ly of 3. Three’s a good num­ber I thought. The whole fam­i­ly fits on a sin­gle row of an air­plane flight. 

1) You’re no longer your kid’s cen­ter of atten­tion You’ll now have some extra time to do some­thing you like.

2) They find hilar­i­ous ways to enter­tain them­selves — and you as well
They’ll find unique ways to play together.

Some chil­dren when first walk­ing bare­foot on sand may imme­di­ate­ly start cry­ing. Oth­ers, though weird­ed out may just wig­gle their toes (and per­haps try to give a taste test). 

As par­ents we can help deter­mine whether a child will cry when faced with an an obsta­cle ‑VS- a child who’ll shrug off a fall or per­se­vere a bit longer before get­ting frustrated.

My son’s cur­rent­ly in the ​“I want to be big” phase.

I want to be big so I can:

• tie my shoes 
• read
• eat hot sauce (I love Sriracha)

Time flies. Before I know it he’ll be doing all those things (and more). But one thing he’s been stum­bling a bit with is count­ing.