• There is a lot of travel advice out there geared towards parents. Early on, I followed some of it. • After years of traveling all over the world, I've learned to ignore most of that advice. • Breaking accepted rules, like always getting an early start, have made our travels more enriching.

When I first started traveling with my kids, I pored over travel forums, soaking up every bit of advice I could find about making travel with kids easier.

Initially, I implemented many of the agreed-upon unwritten rules to make travel with children easier. Some worked, most didn't. I've now taken my children to 24 countries and road-tripped across the United States with them. Eventually, I decided to throw the rulebook out the window.

These are the rules of family travel I regularly break and wh

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