Whether you’re going away for three days or six weeks, it’s still a big job to pack for a family trip. Here are some useful tips on packing for your family trip:

1. Forget the usual advice to ‘travel light.’ Small kids can go through three clean t-shirts before you even get off the plane at your destination.

2. Use plenty of clear zip-lock bags for packing tooth-brush stuff, toiletries, audiocassettes, batteries, or crayons.

3. Don’t forget to pack the medicines you use most frequently, especially children’s fever medicine.

4. Have each child use a backpack to carry their fun stuff.

5. Have each child use one piece of ‘rolling luggage’ for their clothes. Even 4 or 5-year olds can handle ‘rolling luggage’ on flat surfaces.

6. For the budget-minded: bring along cereals, crackers, instant soups and other snacks. As you use up your food-stuffs, you’ll free up room in your luggage for souvenirs.

7. Don’t forget Mom-to-the-rescue stuff: batteries for hand-held electronic toys, scotch tape, scissors, pencil-sharpeners.

8. Dress your child in “disposable clothes”: i.e. clothes on the verge of being worn-out or too small. Once they’re dirty, say “sayonara”: you’ll have less to launder.

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