Possible with younger children?
Hello, seeking some guidance as we have never taken an RV holiday before. We live in Southern California and want to head up the coast (Big Sur and the Redwoods) then across to Yosemite and then back ...
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If towing a trailer, you use car seats, same as always. If using a motor home, there should be seat belts in the seats, usually the passenger seat and the dinette. If you are doing a rental motor home, they will have seat belts in various locations and a baby car seat / booster seat "should" work just fine by using the seat belt to anchor them down.
About young children and RV adventures! Driving is always hard on kids (of any age, even adults). So put it in your plans to stop very often so they can get out and stretch, move, run, jump and play a few minutes. Once they start crying, going into melt-down mode, you'll be stopping soon anyway. Build lots of stops on your route for just this, letting the kids move!
Once at your campsite, or location for the night, you children are no different there than are at home. Nothing changes! Except they will be more excited and harder to get to bed. But, you are on vacation, so give them slack. The more they play, the harder they will sleep! And yes, they WILL be excited about the RV (whatever type you get), and it will be all new for them too! Let them enjoy the excitement. Yes, this is sometimes hard on Mom and Dad, especially after driving all day, but it's their vacation too! Keep that in mind and everyone will be happy.
People go camping with very young children all the time. We did too, long before we had our first pop-up! Here's our little guy! We slept in the back of the pick-up truck!
This was 1985. He was about 6 months old:
And here he is today (actually about a year ago) ... with his own little boy now!
About young children and RV adventures! Driving is always hard on kids (of any age, even adults). So put it in your plans to stop very often so they can get out and stretch, move, run, jump and play a few minutes. Once they start crying, going into melt-down mode, you'll be stopping soon anyway. Build lots of stops on your route for just this, letting the kids move!
Once at your campsite, or location for the night, you children are no different there than are at home. Nothing changes! Except they will be more excited and harder to get to bed. But, you are on vacation, so give them slack. The more they play, the harder they will sleep! And yes, they WILL be excited about the RV (whatever type you get), and it will be all new for them too! Let them enjoy the excitement. Yes, this is sometimes hard on Mom and Dad, especially after driving all day, but it's their vacation too! Keep that in mind and everyone will be happy.
People go camping with very young children all the time. We did too, long before we had our first pop-up! Here's our little guy! We slept in the back of the pick-up truck!
This was 1985. He was about 6 months old:
And here he is today (actually about a year ago) ... with his own little boy now!
