Traveling with kids? Our family wouldn't have it any other way. At one time, parents would go for trips leaving children at home with relatives to care for them. Increasingly, parents are traveling with their children, broadening the entire family’s knowledge of culture, history and geography. Parents Carrie and Jeremy traveled the world after college, spending a year exploring 35 different countries before settling into domestic life. It wasn’t long before the Roberts family – now including two sweet blonde boys you’d suspect were twins if it weren’t for the height difference – hit the road again, producing kid-friendly travelogues packed with information for traveling families. Traveling to New York City, Hawaii, Ireland, England, France, and many more, the Roberts are establishing a new genre of travelogue with a vision that is kid-centric.
Travel With Kids – London finds the Roberts family complete with sons Seamus, age five, and Nathan, age seven, departing by plane for the city of London in the evening to minimize jet lag. Arriving at their destination they dive into a whirlwind of activity over their multi-day trip. Packed into a 50-minute DVD are trips to the British Museum, London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, Tower Bridge, the HMS Belfast, Tower of London, and many more. Watching the heavily edited condensation of the Roberts stay in London is enough to make any parent familiar with traveling with children tuckered out.
Seamus and Nathan dive into their new environs with unabashed delight – taunting English guards out of their famed sobriety, stepping on the sandwiches of punks in Piccadilly Circus, and reveling in the delights of formal English tea – complete with candy canes. Were it not for the opening disclaimer stating that many scenes of crying, tantrums, misbehaviour, breaking things, and other miscellaneous meltdowns, you’d think that the Roberts sons were paragons of virtue. The included blooper reel and occasional glimpses of defiance show that this isn’t the case – the Roberts too experience some challenges including their children in their travels, but persevere for the benefit of the entire clan.
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