Full-time RVing with children is taxing to be honest. Especially if you have a couple of sons like we do. We call them “Inside” and “Outside”.

Like other siblings, our boys are extremely dissimilar to one another. Our oldest boy is ten and his very first word was “OUTSIDE!” Which he frequently exclaimed with remarkable emphasis whilst standing by the front door at five in the morning.

He never changed very much since those times and is most joyful outside, scampering, fishing, biking or playing soldiers.

Alternatively, our other child prefers to be inside; building legos, chatting with himself as well as drawing in depth detailed art work. He loves to stay in the same room with me so long as I do my own thing and don’t interrupt him until he is done.

And yet despite these kinds of differences, these two brothers, “Inside” and “Outside” have always gotten along quite well. And that is a primary reason why the family can go Rving full-time in 2011.

To this point, Inside and Outside are getting along really well on this fulltime RV excursion. For us parents,one of the greatest things about living in a full-time RV is the chance to check out the excellent cultural sites and locations that dot this excellent nation of ours. In short, there is a lot to see.

Even so coming from a kid’s perspective, this “lets see it all” rush to each and every attraction you come into contact with, can be very exhausting.

A couple of weeks into our voyage, we observed this kind of hectic pace was starting to exhaust them. They started to become cranky and were acting out a lot more than they normally do.

What we discovered was that we all were living an “adults lifestyle” at an “adult pace”.

Of course, if you are RVing full time with children, you just can’t do it in this way.

Exactly what we discovered is the fact that children really need to play. They need free time to be by themselves, have fun with their toys, have down time and have fun with other kids at the RV park.

We recognized that this play time is really important to a positive home life for them. While traveling, children miss their friends, their home, their toys and thier playtime. So when you are living in an rv full time, parents must fully grasp this and then fine-tune their routines to include a few normal common down time activities.

Therefore we concluded that we had been going too quickly, trying to do too much and needed to slow down. So we did.

That being said when you are on the road in an Recreational vehicle fulltime with children, discover as many attractions as you sensibly can.Bear in mind to put in a good amount of “chillaxin’ time”.

After all, the points of interest and “not to be missed” sites will always be there…but your children will not always be kids, so give ‘em time to be exactly that.

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