Roundup: Top tips for a great road trip with a baby, toddler, or preschooler

Planning a road trip with a baby, toddler, or preschooler? Fear not. The penguin is here to help. (From Tip #32: Remember the Penguin.)

Are you gearing up for a family road trip with a baby, toddler, or preschooler—or any combination of said back seat passengers? Here’s a guide to help with your planning and preparation drawing from nearly seven years of Travels with Baby Tips blog posts, ten years of my own experiences road-tripping with a baby, toddler, and/or preschooler in the car—and of course, the Travels with Baby guidebook. Hope this helps. 😉

FIRST ROAD TRIP WITH A BABY

⇒ Three easy ways to help keep baby happy in the back seat

⇒ Tips for changing diapers on road trips with baby

"With some 5 or 6 hours still to go, we had to come up with something new and wildly different..." — “With some 5 or 6 hours still to go, we had to come up with something new and wildly different…” From Think Outside The Car Seat

PACING AND PLANNING PIT STOPS FOR YOUR FAMILY ROAD TRIP

⇒ Think outside the car seat (Every stop with a toddler doesn’t have to be Disneyland)

⇒ Three favorite family pit stops for road trips in crummy weather

⇒ Five ways my Take-Along Travels with Baby guide will help on our next family road trip (and might help yours, too!)

⇒ Tales from the road: How a penguin saved my sanity on a 1730-mile road trip with 2 toddlers

⇒ In the guidebooks: See Travels with Baby’s Chapter 13: On the Road for more help planning and packing for a comfortable family road trip, and if you’re considering renting an RV or campervan/conversion van for your road trip, be sure to read Chapter 14.

HELPFUL ITEMS TO PACK FOR ROAD TRIPS WITH YOUNG CHILDREN