My 3 year old has visited 32 countries AMA

[Dinoswearunderpants]

No doubt I'd get a load of shade about 'bragging' but that's not the intention. If anyone is interested in asking any questions about travelling regularly with a little own, feel free to ask.

I often travel just the two of us as his Dad can't get as much time off work as I do.

I'd like your insta-handle too!

And flying is one of the worst culprits for climate change because of the fuel used as well as the amounts of CO2.

It's also an optional luxury for most, so a far easier way to reduce emissions than many other areas.

Do you ever worry about him catching a nasty disease? Or even just being ill and having to travel?

I ask because I saw the Caribbean on your list and dengue is horrific (a 9 year old otherwise healthy boy died of it last year on one of the islands). My DS was seriously ill and hospitalized after catching salmonella aboard. And we have spent many weeks in the UK visiting family (we live abroad) and occasionally a DC has been poorly and its utterly rotten for them.

Yes heaven forbid allowing a child a day off school to experience a new culture. Trying new food. Learning a new language. Lots of walking and swimming.

I'm a terrible mother!

😂😂😂😂 who are you talking to?

Half empty flights don’t take off. They get cancelled. It takes reduced demand from consumers to reduce the huge environmental damage caused by planes. I’ve travelled extensively but I rarely fly. Climate change is having catastrophic results. https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/airlines-carbon-offsets-solution-climate-change-wrong/

Ah a blogger trying to drum up followers. Nuff said.

Have you been to Thailand yet? Absolutely amazing for young kids

This. And I’m sure your child has had to have plenty of painful travel vaccinations.
He’s three fgs, like others have said, he’s unlikely to remember any of the trips and even get a massive amount out of them in comparison to a day at the park. Honestly, long haul flights, busy airports, lots of new people all the time and constant changes of time zone sound completely overwhelming and ridiculous for a toddler.
The insta thing just cements that your motives for all this travel are not primarily to benefit your child, it’s wanting attention and bragging rights.
And if anyone has a different opinion you accuse us of being jealous. Maybe we’re not jealous, maybe we can see this for how utterly ridiculous it is. I’m sure you’ll ignore this comment because it doesn’t fit the narrative you want to engage with.

How many of these countries were cruises where you just stopped for the day? Looking at locations, maybe half of them?

I don’t have a question but I just feel so sad to hear how high your carbon footprint is. Genuine sadness. Not having a go at you. I don’t think we have been properly informed about climate change and the impact it will have nor the comparative carbon footprint of flying. Once I knew the facts I just couldn’t justify flying unnecessarily again. Sorry. I know this will probably annoy but I just feel like we are in such a dire situation, silence is no longer possible. I worry so much for the next generation.

Did you post your instagram handle? Would love to follow you if so! Understand if you don’t .

Carbon offsetting is a fallacy. We just simply need to reduce consumption.

But do you really think op is making that big a difference compared to what not travelling would mean to her?

It’s disingenuous to suggest that none of the pointless vitriol OP is on the receiving end of isn’t at least in part motivated by jealousy that’s dressed up as environmental concerns/ concerns for her child. She’s explicitly been told to shut up because of the delicate sensibilities of those in a worse financial position.

She’s travelling because she enjoys it. Her child may not remember some of these trips when he’s older, but so what? ‘Because I want to’ is all the justification she needs. If you wouldn’t want to that’s fine, no one said you had to. OP wants to do it and can afford it though, so fucking good for her!

Personally I loved travelling as a kid, and ‘painful travel injections’ were well worth it. I even enjoyed the airport. Still do tbh.

You must have a lot of followers to get freebies like that so you surely make more than a couple of hundred. Are you keeping your interaction tips secret haha.

What’s wrong with going to the park on weekends?

We are facing global catastrophe. People are already dying and facing traumatic situations all over the world. There is literally nothing more important right now for the human race - all of us. We will all be impacted. If you know the facts, you know that this is the stark and depressing truth.

This isn’t true through. If enough people didn’t use flights, then there would be less demand and the flights would not take off.

Carbon offsetting is really only about more well off people reducing their guilty consciences. It would be far better not to pollute with those emissions in the first place. It is now widely acknowledged to be, in many cases, greenwashing.

Sorry OP, I have no wish to upset you, but no 3 year old needs to have visited 32 countries. It’s just silly.

The best thing that you can do for your child is stop all these necessary flights. Think of the other 3 year olds around the world who will have to face the consequences of such western indulgences and will never escape the hell of climate change. Or indeed probably never fly in their life. Demonstrate to your child about responsibility to others, not self indulgence and selfishness.

The OPs own child will be impacted by climate change too. There is nowhere on earth that won’t be. Literally. The UK included. One example is food scarcity - food will get harder and harder to grow. Morality is a higher order human need. Enough said. No one will be unaffected.

@Dinoswearunderpants could you PM me too? Dying to see how the other half live, travelling with my children is absolute torture.

Just out of curiosity, and not just directed to you, but all the people complaining about the environmental impact of so much flying, have you managed to justify having a child or even multiple children? If so, how strongly did you consider staying childfree (or only having one child maximum, like the OP) to not bring any more future polluters into the world?
I'm not saying you are wrong to have children, btw, just that every human being will make choices for themselves that will have an impact on the rest of the world and it's quite interesting what sacrifices they're willing to make what ones are absolutely off the table (but which may well make much much more of a difference than driving an EV and not eating much meat, for example) because it's a sacrifice too much for them.

WHAT? I was expecting you to be earning FAR more than £60-80k with the number of holidays you go on in a year. And you said you earn double what your partner does!

our household earns similar but there’s simply no way this would be possible for us. how are you affording all this??

Pls DM me the handle too! :) This sounds great. I haven't travelled much with DS outside the UK, and would love to see more from someone local.

Loving everyone jumping on the climate bandwagon btw. By making the decision to be 'one and done' you've probably saved more carbon impact that travel could ever make! Don't see those comments on large family holiday posts, despite it probably being the same number of flights overall 😂

Also, have you posted an AMA about this previously OP??