Custom one-on-one trips designed around who your child is and who you are right now.
You share four simple anchors- what your child is into, what you’re into, the tone you want this time to have, your budget and your travel window. I turn it into a one-on-one trip that feels true to your life right now.
What I Do
I design custom parent and child trips built around who your child is right now and what you genuinely enjoy. Your real bandwidth, real budget, and real travel window shape the trip. I handle all the planning, logistics, and decisions.
How This All Started
This all began with my son’s 7th birthday. He didn’t know where he wanted to go—he just knew he loved trains and wanted to see snow. So I built a trip around those two clues: skiing in Durango, the Polar Express, a sky-view train into the Grand Canyon, a Junior Ranger badge, and a sunrise run for me.
What I learned:
Kids don’t need elaborate itineraries.
Parents don’t need more decisions.
They just need a trip that reflects who they both are right now.
The Four Anchors
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Child curiosity is the starting point
What your child is into right now becomes the heart of the trip.
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The parent’s interests matter just as much
Your joys, needs, curiosities, and preferences are woven in too.
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The relationship is nurtured
What’s missing?
What needs tending?
What tone do you want this time to have? -
Real life sets the frame
Your real budget, your real bandwidth, and the window you actually have to travel shape the plan.
What I Do With These Anchors
The planning load is lifted.
You share these four anchors, and I turn them into a cohesive, meaningful, realistic one-on-one trip that fits your real life right now. The decisions, research, logistics, flow, and structure are taken care of giving you the experience without the overwhelm.
The Experience Behind Parent + Child Travel Design
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Lived Experience as a Working Parent
Five years designing one on one trips that are simple, meaningful, and doable inside real life.
These trips taught me how to build experiences that nurture the relationship without being elaborate or complicated -
The Approach
A thoughtful, supportive planning process shaped by what your child loves and what you need.
Every detail is grounded in curiosity, connection, and the realities of your schedule, budget, and energy. -
Professional Experience
Ten years supporting parents through perinatal mental health care.
My clinical work has shown me what parents carry, what they long for, and how meaningful it is to have time with one child when life is full. -
Time With One Child at a Time
As a parent of two, I know how meaningful it is to spend uninterrupted time with just one child.
These trips create space to be with your child. It is not about slowing down or speeding up. It is about the quality of being together, paying attention, and sharing an experience that belongs to just the two of you.
Your Custom Parent + Child Travel Design
A crafted, meaningful one-on-one trip built around what your child is curious about right now, what you’re genuinely into, and the connection you want to nurture together. You share four simple anchors. I translate them into a realistic and mindfully structured trip that fits your real life.
About Heather
I am Heather, a parent, a perinatal mental health therapist, and a former hospice chaplain whose life was shaped by the loss of my first child, an experience that changed how I understand time and connection. For the past five years, I’ve created intentional one-on-one trips with my son that were meaningful and rejuvenating without being elaborate or performative, and I learned how powerful it is to step out of daily life and be with one child at a time. Parent + Child Travel Design grew from that lived experience and from my work with parents who carry a lot, helping families create connected, aligned time together without taking on the mental load of planning it alone
Begin your Parent + Child Travel Design
If this is the experience you want to create, the next step is simple.
Share a few details about your child, yourself, and your real life, and I will begin shaping a custom one on one trip for you. I will follow up within 48 hours with next steps and availability.