The HARDEST part of traveling the world with kids
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- Our family is getting out of the office, out of the classroom, and out of the bubble to explore the beauty of the world in-person, from its people, history and geography to its architecture, food and culture.
We’re on a quest to experience 110 distinct cultures across all 7 continents by the summer of 2025, when our oldest, Reagan, heads off to college and our two youngest, Brooklyn and Colt, begin in-person high school.
Our semi-nomadic family lifestyle isn't all peaches and cream. In this episode, we dive into some of the biggest challenges related to our constant travel and how our kids feel about the journey.
Contents:
0:00 Introduction
1:42 How does Reagan feel about our travel lifestyle?
4:26 What part of traveling with our kids are we embarrassed or ashamed of?
7:12 How does Brooklyn feel about our travel lifestyle?
9:59 How much more does it cost to travel with kids than without?
13:17 How do the kids maintain friendships/hobbies while traveling?
14:26 How does Colt feel about our travel lifestyle?
15:57 What’s the best part about traveling with kids?
17:29 What are the kids’ most and least favorite places to travel?
18:55 Do you ever fantasize about traveling without kids?
21:08 What's the worst part of traveling with kids?
21:41 What’s our worst travel experience so far?
25:12 Are you 100% sure this lifestyle is actually better for our kids?
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ABOUT US.
We’re the Lockwoods: a family with 3 kids, 5 careers, and endless passion for adventure. Two years ago, we decided it was time for Phil's ad agency to abandon the in-person, 5-day workweek. So they 86’d the office and work hours, allowing our own family to start traveling almost constantly. We now work, school, and explore in a different place every week-from our own mountain and beach homes to exotic villas, resorts, and yachts around the world. As we experience and support diverse cultures, we hope to inspire more families to design a life of freedom and adventure.
Because there’s a new American Dream. It’s one that’s void of templated expectations, templated career paths, templated education, templated families, templated homes, and templated lives. Freedom is no longer an American tagline-it’s just the new, global way of life.
Every day that you spend doing something that doesn’t fulfill you to your core, you’re living your life on pause. You’re deferring genuine family time with no guarantee that there will be a tomorrow or a someday. Some people follow that mentality their entire lives. We’ve chosen to never live that way again.
We appreciate you following our journey. The more our channel grows, the more time we can spend traveling to more locations, contributing to these cultures, highlighting local businesses, and sharing inspiring stories from these communities. So please consider liking, commenting, and subscribing so that you can stick with us for the long haul.
If I was still a kid, I would be so happy traveling and exploring the world and experiencing new culture. I love watching your family bonding together. I love Brooklyn the most, but Colt reminds me of myself when I was younger.
Awww thank you. We love traveling with our kids so much. It brings us a lot of joy.
You're living the life that I wanted for my family but couldn't do due to financial consideration.
Like you, I believe that travel is essential for the growth of the kids. It opens their eyes to new experiences and other culture. My son for instance, never thought of living/working abroad until he saw how wonderful other countries are like japan, new zealand, singapore, taiwan, south korea, etc.
And yes, we too couldn't leave our children behind although they are now adults. It's simply more enjoyable to travel with the whole family despite the cost. I do the planning for our trips and seeing the joy that my family gets out of it is worth all the effort.
So keep on traveling and sharing your experiences with us. We're here to support you!
We're definitely fortunate in that we can afford to travel like this, although it's not easy. We're not cashing out our retirement accounts or anything but the costs pretty much have us living paycheck to paycheck otherwise. So many flights for so much family, plus the costs of lodging, food, ground transportation, experiences, and so on. It's a very challenging budget, but one we hope will become easier to support as our channel grows. The struggle is worth it considering the benefits to our family and the children, as you've noted.
Hopefully you can still get your travel fix now that your kids are adults (and maybe they can pay their own way ;) so please keep us posted. Maybe our paths will cross at some point. In the meantime, thank you for your support and for commenting ❤️❤️
🙏Thank you very much for sharing your travel adventures and answering questions from your fans. My wife and I enjoy your videos. With that being said, I grew up poor in the far east and not until coming to the USA I was able to improve my life immensely.
In my humble opinion, for many folks they can only dream what you guys have in life. Reagan, all I can say to you is to spend time with your family as much as you can because times flies. My mom left us when I was 5 years old and my Dad left us when I was 11 years old. Cherish every moment with them, because once that time is gone you'll never get it back. I never had the opportunity to know my family, and it's not by choice they just simply left us after divorce. Living with grandparents is not the same as your core family.
I'm so glad I got to discover this channel. I loooove travelling and would like to see how it affects growth and learning in a family.
Welcome to our channel 🤗 Thanks for following us along!
I can relate to all of these things. You guys are doing an incredible job. Your children will have such an advantage growing up. That's an amazing gift you're offering them all. I love your travel goals.
Thank you!!! 😊 it always feels good to hear encouragements. If I summed up the episode to a few words, I’d say traveling with kids isn’t always easy but it’s definitely always worth it.
OMG! I just discovered your channel this morning while trying to make travel plans for my month-long trip to the French Riviera next month.
You are officially my favorite new travel channel!!
I don’t have kids. (Or a husband, for that matter!) But I love your travel style. (Foodie here, too!)
Thank you! Keep ‘em coming.
Thank you, Jill!! 🤗 That makes us so happy to hear. We’re definitely going to keep ‘em coming. Our schedule is packed the rest of the year, including a trip back to Europe in Dec. And lots of food content!
I really love your channel! Happy I found this while scrolling on UA-cam. I'm from the Philippines and I saw your travel here. I've been to Boracay and Cebu also and watching your vlogs made me miss it haha! Glad you enjoyed your stay here!
You guys are great. Your children are very lucky to have you as parents. I watched some of your travel especially my country the Philippines, I'm glad you enjoyed it. More power!....
I love Brooklyn😆😄🌸
We love her too 🥰
hi family awesome video its part of life lots of decession to make plus set back you guys doing a great job thank you guys in the long run you guys have so much stories to talk about as you guys get older until next video stay safe ❤❤❤❤❤
🥰🤗 Thanks, Wendy!
Thanks
Thanks for watching! We’re looking forward to so many great trips ahead.
husband here trying to get in as many shows before we leave on the 26th. Our son's lifting story. At age 3 he was always interested in Bruce Lee movies, ( Bruce and Brandon are
buried next to each other in Seattle, on Capital Hill ) For his 7th BD, I signed him up for Tae Kwon Do. I took him 3x a week for two months then I also started the class. I was 49 at
this time. After 4 years we both earned our black belts. Ryan went on to karate for a year and kick boxing for a year. In high school, he was dip king for all 4 years. ( pushing yourself
up on parallel bars, up, down, up etc. In College he set two state records for benching and dead lift. After college he was dating a girl who was a cross fit trainer. Ryan wanted to set
the world record for the dead lift which would have been 920 lbs. for his age of 26. He was up to 800 lbs and they broke up. Mom was happy in that he lost interest in the world record.
Ryan is 5'8" and has his own gym set up in his garage. No more world record goals though. It is nice that both of you can get in some exercise between meals. lol
What a great accomplishment! Both your son and you. Where are you headed on the 26th? We hope it’s someplace fun!
@@AlwaysBeChanging Phil, we are heading for Cebu, Ph. on Mactan Island where we have our 3000 sq ft home, 5 bedrooms, 4 bath, AC in the bedrooms only, one maid 3 dogs, banana trees, and humidity, lots of it. It's cold in Wash.
@@janetceniza8091 awesome! Sounds wonderful.
Watching from the Philippines
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Very refreshing video, thanks a lot 🤙🏾
We appreciate you watching! Thanks for the support 🤗
If you don't mind me asking, what do you do for a living to help support this lifestyle. Thank you for this wonderful channel and many good vibes toward you and the family!
Thank you 🙏. Phil owns a marketing agency, Distill, that he operates remotely. We also work full time (between the two of us) on our content.
Did you guys do a specific video on your kids and how you do schooling? We live in Vancouver, and Thailand, but we plan on doing a lot more between both worlds in the next few years.
Our recent video, day in the life, shares a little bit about that. But since you’re international you can look into Ignite. I’ve heard good things about it and it’s similar to the program our kids are in. It’s a private online school but the tuition seems very reasonable to us.
@@AlwaysBeChanging thank you
Brooklyn is an aesthete... so I know devotee's relish the culture of places like Italy of course, New York's with its Metropolitan museum of art... and a host of art galleries in the Manhattan... when she grows up I'm sure she'll be visiting New York more often and Italy. the word aesthete I had to actually look up and hear the way to pronounce it from a recording... LOL
We had to look that word up 😊 and yes, she is! Thank you 🙏
B4 u leave the Philippines explore the modern city of BBC and Malawi.
Very sorry for the manipulation of my wordings by this pages.... BGC AND MAKATI NOT BBC AND MALAWI
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