Packing teens for school trips

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Any tips for helping young teens pack for school trips? Especially school trips involving air travel?

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Write them a list? Despite many years of scout camps with kit lists, my DSs were unable to successfully pack until adulthood and DS2 is dyspraxic so generally struggles.

Get them to write a list of what they think they'll need. Use any kit list supplied by school to help. Check it and suggest amendments if necessary.
Then let them pack it themselves, and don't check it for them.
The last bit is v important as they need to learn to do it themselves.

Why would air travel involve different clothing unless going somewhere with a different climate?

Dts have just done their y6 residential and packed for themselves.

Make sure their hand luggage toiletries are in a clear bag within the try airport size (1l) with nothing over 100ml

My tips, have them go through and day (maybe two) and make a note of everything they use. So:

Get up (slippers, alarm)
Shower (gel etc.)

The other one that works is thinking from head to toe. So:

Head (shampoo, brush, comb, hat, hair ties, conditioner)
Face (moisturizer etc.)

Works for me. Much better than Googling a generic packing list. My 11yo with ADHD can pack for herself.

Give them a list and make them tick things off.

do it a few days before the trip so there’s still time to buy replacements of all the things they can’t find or have outgrown.

So not give them a list. Encourage and teach them to think for themselves. They are then taking responsibility for themselves and will be better equipped for adulthood.

Get them to create their own list. Get them to think about what they do each day from getting up to going to bed. Get them to consider different things like being weather prepared, rain/cold prepared, planned activity prepared. Prompt them obviously but don't do it for them. Use any lists the school give you. I don't tell my DC what they need, I encourage them think.

School trips generally have a list. I've made my kids pack for themselves for trips since they were young, 7/8 but checked before the bag was zipped up. In addition when going to places where forgetting things didn't really matter eg visiting my parents, I left them to it packing, they learnt the consequences of forgetting things eh having to borrow clothes off nanna!