Traveling with Newly Adopted Children

Traveling with kids is hard enough when you know them and they know you. How in the world do you travel with with a newly adopted child? How do you keep a child entertained during the plane, cab, car, bus rides that are inevitable? Join our guests Brooke Randolph, a licensed mental health counselor and founding team member MLJ Adoptions, Inc., where she currently serves as the VP of Social Services. She is a single adoptive mother who has recently traveled with her newly adopted 6 year old son; and Susie Doig, an adoption social worker with Holt International Adoption Agency.

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Virtually all international adoptions and many adoptions from foster care in the US and domestic infant adoptions require adoptive parents to travel home with their child.
What steps can you take before you travel, but after you meet your child that will make traveling easier?
How to gradually transition with your newly adopted child before you come home?
What questions to ask your child’s caregiver when you have the chance before you bring your child home?
Should you use pull-ups, if your child is already potty trained, for the trip home?
How long do parents have in country with their child before they travel?
My mantra of traveling with newly adopted children.
Air travel suggestion when traveling with a newborn.
Air travel suggestion when traveling with a baby.
Air travel suggestion when traveling with school aged child.
What type of electronics are best to use when traveling with kids?
#1 key to successful travel with children.
How to prepare your child for using a car seat on the ride home?
Should you use Benadryl to make your child sleep on the airplane ride?