1. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Especially on vacation, when you’re not in your normal surroundings, respect for others and their space needs to be top of mind.
2. Preparation = Confidence
Lowering your stress level with your kids by preparing them properly up-front, setting up your vacation for success.
When kids act crazy in public, it’s because they’re not prepared or don’t feel prepared. Kids are kids and sometimes they’re just going to act like kids. But, when you prepare them ahead of time for where you’re going, what you’ll be doing, and what you expect of them - you cut the battle in half.
3. Dress appropriately
Even when on vacation, dress for the environment. Don’t assume that everywhere you go is ‘a place for you.’ Just because you’re on vacation running around the pool and hotel, doesn’t mean you can run into the nice restaurant wearing your suit, cover-up and flip flops.
4. Airplanes: listen up
Let your child know before they board that they’ll need to sit still, play quietly, use their inside voice, and not kick seats or grab headrests. It’s important that kids learn to respect the authority of the flight crew and their instructions.
5. Hotels: clean up
Did you know that the housekeeping staff are some of the lowest paid workers in the hotel – yet, they clean 15-18 rooms a day checking 250 points in every room, sometimes working 6 days a week? Housekeepers work hard.
Clean up after yourself like you would at home. This is a good time to remind kids how to treat property with respect. You wouldn’t leave trash and wet towels lying around your home, so don’t do it in a hotel room.
