The long overdue family summer holiday has finally arrived, but before you rejoice here a few GIFs to prepare you for the joy of travelling with kids.
It starts from the moment you tell the kids they’re going on holiday:
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They are impossible to control, leaving you only one solution for the plane journey (remember that with kids you will NEVER GET UPGRADED). This is clearly a joke, parents! Don’t ever try this one:
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You spend the entire time exhausted, but are never allowed to sleep:
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You can’t take them to the bars because you fear this will give them a “taste” for alcohol:
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You can’t take them to the beach because they are a serious liability to themselves (and everyone else for that matter):
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But it’s only a few short years and then things will go back to the way they were:
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Words by Lance van Dijk
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