Advice from a Travel Agent and Single Mom

Travelling with Children:

Looking for tips on what supplier, what resort and destinations to travel to with children.  How many children do you have? Will the resort hold that many? Making sure you have a travel agent who knows your needs will be a big help as they are trained to know where to start.

Watch this video and check out the list below for some great ideas from a Travel Agent / Single mom.

From this travel agent (who is also a single mom’s) experience:

you will learn what to look for, what airlines work best with families (Most are really good with families truthfully and each year the top supplier changes for this so ask your travel agent).
Work with a travel agent as they will be able to help you with so many little tips. Like which airline (supplier) has children programs. Which airlines allow free seating for parents and children beforehand without paying for them. Which suppliers have great relationships with the resorts to ensure the experience for both parent(s) and child(ren) are amazing.

All the things that as a parent you will struggle with, but never really have given it much thought. Or if you are a very organized parent you have stressed about all of these tips because you know they will cause you some concern.

For example:

• Tips on what to do at a buffet.
• Do you get assistance?
• do you take more than one plate?
• How do you get all their food and yours?
• do you leave them at the table and hope they behave?
• going to the bathroom on the airplane
• Going to the bathroom at the beach
• Strollers, do you need one, can you rent one?
• what resorts to pick
• Do the resorts offer daycare?
• Do the resorts offer kids clubs?
• Are they run well enough your child will want to spend time there?
• What are the security measures put in place?

Click here for the list of tips for travelling with Children.

Are you struggling with knowing if staying in a relationship is worth it for you and your children, click here.

Are you in a relationship that is looking perfect, but it isn’t?

Have you been wondering if you are in a healthy relationship or what you should do about it?
Are you struggling with knowing if staying in the relationship is worth it for you and your children?

How do you determine what is right for you? Are you allowed to make changes, and if so, what will be the cause and effect?

Will you feel guilty and if so, you will feel it will be worth the relief of leaving? Will there be comfort in not only knowing you will have better self-esteem but hopefully so will your children? Or will you just cause a different kind of issue with being a single parent?

Learn how Melissa went through this journey. What made her make the choices she did. How she went about accomplishing her new goal. What she is doing to not only survive but thrive with the choices she has made.

The journey of life is not always easy, so make your choices wisely thinking everything through. Here are some videos on family life that might help you decide.

Click here: If you are dealing with a partner that is a drug addict, please check out Laura’s video. It might help

Click here to watch: The voice of a child from a divorced family. Not to put any guilt on you if you decide to get a divorce, but it is important that you do think about all sides. Yours and your child’s. Even though it might not be fair, your decision should be based on how this will affect your child, more so than if this is what you want.

Click here to watch: Who has control in your family? A video that will help you determine: Does it seem as if you have lost control in your home? What to learn how to get it back?

Are you with someone who you think might have a Drug addiction?
Do you sit awake at night wondering how to cope?
Are you thinking or being told by the person who is creating all of this drama that it is all your fault?
Are you starting to wonder about your own sanity?
Are you struggling with doing all the parenting yourself?

Are you parenting children: who are witnessing the abuse of drugs and are you struggling with,

• do you leave,
• do you stay,
• do you allow your child to see and witness this?
• do you protect them from seeing this?
• do you allow them to be in a single-parent situation instead?
• is that better,
• is that worse?

If you are living through any of these questions…
If you think you are losing your mind and don’t know what to do…
If you have parents, friends or in-laws that think “you are the problem”…..
If you feel you are the only one struggling with this.

Come listen to Laura’s story and see if this sounds like what you are going through.

Being a parent means you are ensuring that your child or children are safe. Not only physically, but also mentally, spiritually and emotionally.  If your partner or spouse is not allowing your children to FEEL safe, then you need to decide what is more important. Their wellbeing, your spouse’s (partner’s) wellbeing, or your own wellbeing.

Although you do need to ensure your well-being is solid as your child will be depending on you, therefore you need to make a stable home life for your children. What does that look like? Only you can say for sure. But what you should know for sure is that someone with an addiction is not stable, and they cannot provide stability for you… or your children.
Can you do better on your own? Maybe not financially but in all other areas, YES you can. So look for help financially and take care of all the other needs your children will have without the extra baggage of someone who is weighing you and your children down.

We live and learn more from the examples around us than anything else.

To learn more about parenting without guilt child out this free chapter from my parenting book:  Click on the picture

The word Guilt written with a pencil on white paper. An eraser from a pencil is starting to erase the word guilt.

Or click here to watch a video on Parenting a Parent: