This is Not a Vacation How Our Family Learned to Travel
Maybe you've googled "traveling with neurodivergent kids" and gotten a list of tips that didn't fit your family. Maybe you've watched other families move through airports and wondered what you're missing. Maybe you've already tried — and it was hard, and beautiful, and nothing like you expected.
This book is for you.
“Finally a parenting book that doesn’t make you feel like you have done it all wrong and ruined your kids in the process!
Although this book has a neurodivergent audience in mind, I think it is still very relatable for any parent nervous about traveling with their kids, or for a family that had a trip go very wrong and needs some encouragement to try again.
[The] focus on storytelling gives you a safe space to explore relatable moments and realize opportunities to improve your own travel experiences. It’s not only about preventing triggers and meltdowns, it’s about being prepared to calmly handle things as they come. Minimize and mitigate, not magnify when problems arise. Travel with confidence.
Attention to [the] child’s autonomy is admirable. Planning travel with consideration to your child’s interests and abilities shows a level of respect and care we can all learn to model better with our own children.”
-Nikki
“It’s a spectacular book that so many families will find full of useful advice and nuanced experience shared in an open & story-driven way.”
-Melody
This isn't a how-to. It's a how-I.
This is Not a Vacation is the real, unpolished story of what it actually looks like to travel as a neurodivergent family — across multiple countries, multiple stages of childhood, and multiple versions of what worked.
Not a blueprint. Not expert-approved strategies. Just one family's honest account of trial and error, of letting go of perfect travel in favor of meaningful travel, and of learning — slowly, sometimes messily — how to keep going.
Each chapter follows a different age and developmental stage: what we tried, what landed, what fell apart, and what we'd do differently. Because the needs change. And so do you.
This book is for the parent who:
Feels overwhelmed by the idea of traveling with their kids — but hasn't given up on it entirely.
Has tried the standard advice and found it doesn't fit their family's nervous system.
Wants permission to do it their own way — and the perspective to figure out what that actually means.
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