It's harder up until they're out of diapers and car seats. Thankfully, it's a lot easier than it used to be, especially with food delivery and uber-like services everywhere. Use AI if you want ideas, and google translate to read menus and signs, airalo (and some bitcoin version, too but I forget) to get e-sim data for whatever country you're going to cheap.

There are definitely downsides to traveling with kids, like cost and having to accommodate their tastes, but there are upsides, too. You get a lot of discounts, for example, especially at museums and such in countries with few kids (like Japan!) It's also fun being with them and giving them memories. A picture in front of some iconic place is a lifetime memory. It's also really good for them to get exposed to different cultures.

Anyway, it's going to be harder, no doubt, but it's also more meaningful because you're doing the activity as a family. And don't underestimate how you'll look back on it. A trip like that is something that you'll be referencing for the rest of your life.

The hard part is car seats in foreign countries

Domestic is easy

In Mexico they offer free car seat but when we called their bluff they didn’t know how to install it since they don’t have the latch system.

Indonesia said, hold my beer, baby

I'm lucky cause I am still single. My travelling habits haven't changed a lot so ce I started travelling on my own.

Before I had kids, travelling meant hitchhiking. Going out on the road for weeks or months at a time with just a backpack and a small sleeping bag. Having kids changed EVERYTHING. Now I have a mini van and we stay in hotels, or camp out.

I don't think we really change anything before or after having kids. My wife and I had always thought that our decisions and activities shouldn't be made surrounding our children and that our children should accommodate us instead, because we are in charge. That had been the way they were raised and I guess there isn't much they can do about it.

We brought them on long hikes that tire them out to their bones, but they are running and jumping again after a good night sleep. We brought them on long road trips where we drove over 10 hours a day, several days in a row; they just sleep in the car when they get tired and talk with each other or stare out the car window when they get bored.

I do add in stops like playgrounds or science centers during trips to let them have fun, but that's after we visit the places my wife and I want to visit.

i have often fantasized that my kids will be sent off to various countries for immersive education asap. i want them to learn how to remain mobile and think on their feet in order to escape human farming, which will no doubt escalate in the near future.

Surprisingly, not that much. Maybe a little bit more planning, but having only one kid, it hasn't been that much of a hassle. Maybe the first 2 years before potty-training were bit more difficult, but now, closing in on 5 years of age, it's pretty much the same as before. We do a bit more activities that he likes, but even museums, expositions and other adult stuff, he has to put up with it if we as parents decide it is something we want to do. We're drinking less alcohol than before, too, but that's not necessarily because of the kid.

We go nowhere and do nothing, now.

However, our daughter's finally old enough that traveling is less of a pain, so we're going to go on our first real vacation this winter.