Packing Children's Travel Luggage

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Packing is one of the tedious things to do when preparing for a trip. And if packing all the clothes, toiletries, gears and whatever else one needs in a trip isn’t stressful enough, parents also have to arrange everything that their children want and need for the same trip. And believe me, children require more stuff to bring than adults would.



I’ve been bringing my son to my out-of-town trips as early as 11 months old. These trips, though, were only for a day and usually with relatives who help me out with all the baby stuff I had to bring. So, normally, I bring tons of baby stuff with me, even the ones that we might not need, simply because I know somebody else would be carrying them for me.



But, by the time my son was 4 years old, I decided to embark on a solo journey with my son for a 3-day-2-night stay at a resort in Puerto Galera, Mindoro Oriental. And since we will be staying for 3 entire days with several hours of boat and land travel, I had to think ahead all the possible scenarios, good and bad, which might occur during those 3 days. And for all these possible scenarios, I had to be ready with everything else that we might need – from the number of wet tissues that I had to bring to the number of shirts that he might need up to the kind of toys he might want. Everything in my list had to be detailed and completed. I had no Mom out there to call for help, or siblings to run errands for me. For 3 days and 2 nights, I had to do everything by myself.



I couldn’t really say that our first-ever trip together, as Mom and Son, the Wandering Tandem, was a super success. For one, I brought too many small bags, which was difficult for me to carry all at the same time. It was easier when we went to the resort’s Manila office, as all throughout the land and boat travel, resort personnel would often help us out. When we got back to Manila and was dropped off near the resort’s office, I had an extremely difficult time carrying all our bags and hailing a cab at the same time. Worse, I had no hand available to hold my son’s hand and would just constantly remind him to hold on to my arms or my pants.


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