First family holiday abroad

[Heartattack41]

2 questions really bothering me

1, what can I take to keep 7 year old entertained when we need peace for half hour?
2, 14 days together what will we talk about?

1. Kindle, colouring, puzzles, activity books etc we always have a back pack of activities. Also, probably just the pool and you can lie on the sun lounger.

1. Who is we? Who is going on holiday? Surely you just chat as you would normally at home?

1. Books, small toys, whatever they play with at home.
2. We used to play word games, particularly at dinner, the sort you'd play on a long car trip.

This was pre mobile phones though so neither parent nor child had technology and you got used to being creative.

We enrolled ours in activity clubs for dc. They liked it. We liked a bit of us time.

some pool toys like a rubber ring etc. they won’t spend 5 minutes out of the pool or sea I’d imagine. But also as others have said toys. We usually take a travel game of snakes and ladders, colouring, a small art project, audio chapter books for the kids, books for them to read themselves.

im sure as they are your family you will have plenty to say!

@Heartattack41 Don’t just stay in the resort! We went to local restaurants and tried new food. We saw local towns and talked about their history. We always saw going abroad as a mix of sea, sun and learning. Plenty to talk about!

Where are you going? Resort with kids' club or AirBnb? WIll give you different options.
There is no special holiday talk, continue as you would normally at home.

These aren’t things I’ve ever given much thought to. DDs have always abused themselves in the pool or whatever. DH and I would play with them (we still will swim around all of us playing sharks or whatever now and they’re 17 and 20 😂) but if we had enough we’d get out and read etc and dds would carry on or get out and read/watch stuff on phones/tablets too.

you talk about general stuff. Like you would at home. You don’t need specific topics of conversation. Just chat.

Right at this age the kids clubs were really helpful but if you are SC then set some ground rules like, 1.30-2.30 is shade and book time for example after having lunch.

We usually take some puzzles (eg small book of mazes and word searches), and some toy cars and maybe a small bag of Lego.

And a pack of cards for us all to play together (kids of 7 can learn rummy and even whist), a travel board game (we have a chess/ludo/backgammon magnetic mini travel game).

More info needed…
is there a pool?
kids club?

We used to take Lego, craft stuff, new books they’d never read.

it depends where you’re going.

At that age DD liked the kids clubs.

Otherwise, books, activitiy books, magazines, colouring in, 1/2 hour ipad/TV, some toys