Travelling with young kids!

Hi Rebecca,

I'm not travelling as yet (I wish), but we plan to be by this time next year. By "we", I mean my 7yr old son (who will be closer to 8 by then) and me. We were originally planning to go for 12months but due to a number of various reasons- we have cut it down to just 3 months. We will be leaving around August and travelling from Sydney north to Uluru, and than south to Victoria and back to Sydney.

I would say my son interacts far greater with adults or babies than children his own age. This doesn't bother me a whole lot. I'm one of four kids, and all of my friends are older than I am- my closest friends have already crossed the 40 bridge, while I'm only 28. I've always got along much better with people far older than I and I wasn't ever taken away from other kids my own age so I give little value to this theory.
I think the fact that you are an early childhood teacher will help greatly as you'll know where to start with teaching the fundamentals of reading, maths etc something that I, being a non-school teacher would not have felt comfortable doing.

There will be 7 kids travelling with us next Easter. Will be in Alice at that time, then heading north, and back to NSW via Qld/coast

Hi Rebecca, Our family have been on the road for approx 3 years now, staying for periods in a town and then moving on again. Our boy is about to turn 7 in December and when we left home was shy and quiet. Some days i now wish i could have that boy back as he is always on the move doing something. He is more than happy playing with any age children and does not find it hard to meet others when on the road and is good at saying goodbye. At the moment we are in Darwin so he is enrolled in school but when travelling we do lots of reading/writing and getting him to make scrapbooks of what he has done and seen.

We love it and dont worry about children they make friends before you will say hello to someone. Have a great time