Travelling with children: the blood, sweat and tears – and the determination to keep going | Lucille Wong
If you feel there are not enough challenges in your life as a parent, may I suggest taking your kids on a flight
- Sharing the Load is a column about parenting children of all ages
We landed in Melbourne after our red-eye flight from Bali. Our then two-year-old was raging with fever (he was not ill when we boarded) and had screamed for five out of the six hours.
Dazed and confused, we joined the long line for international passport holders instead of the much shorter family line for Australians. We wasted 40 minutes. That was when our then four-year-old decided to vomit. We cleaned that up (FYI, immigration has spew bags), got past the custom dogs, hauled our stuff on to the insanely packed bus that would take us to the equally packed cheap car park, found our car and drove home, before collapsing into a heap.
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