But around the time my daughters were four and seven, I started to get some serious FOMO , so I booked a trip to Iceland. I studied jet lag like it was my job before I got on that plane. I grilled everyone I could think of who had travelled overseas with their kids to get to the bottom of how they did it. I also read all of the travel blogs—OK, maybe not all, but I read a lot of them. Miracle of all miracles, it worked. My kids slept. And they adjusted. So, you should really go to Iceland.
. That means if it’s daytime in London, go outside, even if it might be the middle of the night back home.It might be dinnertime in Florida, but it’s time for breakfast in Tokyo. That means, you’re having breakfast, not dinner. “It’s important to eat at the right times for wherever you are, and not to keep telling yourself, ‘Well, at home, we would be doing this,’ or ‘When we were on our trip, we would be doing this,’” Szmulewitz says.