When our kids were little we usually packed their backpacks for them or carried supplies for them in our own backpacks. Now that they are older our kids love to pack their own travel backpacks.
We usually start having them help with their backpacks around age 6, or once they have started kindergarten. They can carry a small backpack before then, but usually it doesn’t have anything important or necessary for the plane just in case it gets lost (queue the time in the Copenhagen airport when our five year old left her backpack with her Kindle in it somewhere and we never found it before the flight took off!).
Even when our kids pack their own backpacks we always make sure that they include these basic few things (see the FREE download provided below). Here are the top 10 items we ALWAYS pack in our kid’s travel backpacks.
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There is a lot you can add, but we never forget these things.
What else would you add?