This is especially true when you travel with young kids. We should have driven. We should have flown. We should have gone to Disney. We should have waited a year. We should have brought goody bags for our fellow passengers like that woman on"Good Morning America" . We should have stayed home.
I’m not here to tell you what you should or shouldn’t have done. How could I possibly know? But I am here to tell you that I see you and I appreciate you and I want to give you a hug. Or help you find the goggles. Or hold the baby while you cut the toddler’s crusts off. Or buy you a drink. And probably someone else around you does too.
And if, on the other hand, you are a person who is not traveling with young kids but simply sharing space with a person who is traveling with young kids, I nudge you toward kindness. You were also a baby once. And a toddler. You also benefit from a world in which children’s joy and wonder and brains and imagination are fed. Your patience is so much more appropriate than your disdain.
Parenting can be so, so lonely. And lovely, of course. But also lonely. Kindness really does go a long way.
HeidiStevens13 I didn’t fly on a plane til I was 25…