We have never been at home to load with too many packages. I remember the first long trip, of more than 100 km, which we did with our little son, should be about six months or so, I lowered my bags and bags to the garage and spent a quarter of an hour looking at the bags, looking at the car, looking suitcases, looking at a car, like this all the time, in an attempt to find the master key to enter a volume of junk that doubled that of the trunk.
Our first trip was an experience that served us as a lesson, as surely it will have happened to some of you, we did not use 80% of the "just in case" we took. In the following trips, we decided to drastically reduce what we were going to take and still threw me twenty minutes to place everything and half of the clothes returned without even having left the suitcase.
The holidays arrive and as every year we begin to make lists and more lists about everything that needs to be taken, especially if it is the first time we go with our son to the beach. Organizing on vacation: What objects can we avoid taking on a trip
Before being a father, I remember the scenes of families arriving at the beach, you recognized them because at one point you saw a towel mound crowned by an umbrella that was orbited by an undetermined number of small beings. Once it reached about four or five meters from the shore, our object was dismantled which LEGO and it began to leave towels, baskets, refrigerators, chairs, mats and other beach implements that were placed on a surface directly proportional to the number of members of the family.
Toys
It is no use that we take most of their toys in case you give them for wanting to play with one or the other and they did not have just what they want at that time. If they are older we can let them choose that two or three toys they want to take on vacation, with the little ones we will select them ourselves, but with a small bag it is enough, the beach and the sand can keep them entertained for a long time without the need for extras.
It does not make much sense to take electronic toys, such as radio control vehicles, to the beach if they are not prepared for sand and saltpeter. A remote control formula 1 car can be a lot of fun at home, but on a beach it won't work, it will be filled with sand and it can even break down, and anyway, have you seen anyone with something like that on the beach? The helicopters, quadrocopters and other "helicopters", which are so fashionable lately, on a crowded beach will only bring us problems.
If we go to beaches where the wind is strong, like those of Tarifa and the like, apart from carrying windbreaks and especially if we have a baby, we should avoid bulky toys that have little weight, or with large areas, unless we want to travel the beach behind our son's foam cube (neither will you be the first nor the last to happen to them). A trick if you have to carry these types of objects because they are your child's favorite, is to tie them to the handle of a bag or to the umbrella stick, so you also prevent your child from throwing it at the neighbor, a couple of times returning the Toy is admissible, spending the afternoon recovering our neighbor's toys tires anyone.
Buckets, shovels, balls and implements characteristic of the beaches from this country. What is a child without his bucket and shovel or without his wall mold? Two tips: if your child does not like to play in the sand of the park, something that happened to mine, the most likely is not to play in the sand of the beach and the castle do it for your use and enjoyment. And from here the second tip is derived: it does not make much sense to take the complete Beach Kit on a 500Km trip considering that we will surely find the same kit in a whole at 100 on the beach for two hard ones.
The mats and floats
The sun and the sea water are an explosive combination for this type of object, especially if they are not of good quality and if we have not been careful with them it is possible that they have spoiled us from one year to the next.
If we do not want to have a dislike at the beach, it is best to check their integrity before leaving home, unless we have to make an extra stop.
By the way, taking a mat to the beach on a windy day is the best way to end the morning of bad milk. On the other hand it is very fun for the little ones to go lying on the mat while we pull it, that way we will avoid burning and go at a rather lighter pace, and we will make a few minutes of leg that never hurts.
Chairs, cars and other infant transport vehicles
My advice is that you use any other transport method that does not carry wheels. Or you have a baby fighting car (I mean by the caterpillars) or better not try to put one of them on the beach and much less if it is a stroller, no matter how much they told you that the car is ready to go the sand and even have a special position, believe me, the only thing that is prepared to go for the sand is a camel, the rest of animals (human or not) we were born to go on firm ground.
Another tip to all those who are not going to follow my advice and take the car or chair to the beach, although in the bottom of my heart I hope you don't think about taking more than one. Never, never, push a chair through the sand on the beach, never. The only thing you are going to get is that your son flies forward and throws the rest of the afternoon chewing sand (and there are better and healthier ways for your child to eat minerals). If you have to move do it pulling of the car.
Yes, I know what you are thinking. Many parents have finished the holidays that look like a Chinese out of the filming of 55 days in Beijing.
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