A Note from Laila’s Mom

This didn’t start as a business idea.
It started with watching my daughter move through the world.

Laila doesn’t experience travel the way adults do. She’s not thinking about hotels, logistics, or whether something is “kid-friendly.”

She notices how people greet each other. What smells different. What feels unfamiliar. What makes her curious. What makes her pause.

She asks questions that stop me in my tracks — not Google questions, but human ones.

And each time, I’m reminded of something: the way we document travel for families has very little to do with how children actually experience the world.

Most family travel content is written to reassure parents.
This will be easy. This will be convenient. Your child won’t disrupt your enjoyment.

Kids are treated like a variable to manage.

But that’s not how kids experience the world — and it’s not how future leaders are shaped.

Our children are growing up more global than any generation before them. They’ll move across cultures, borders, and belief systems with ease. What they’ll need most isn’t optimization — it’s empathy, curiosity, and cultural literacy.

Yet we rarely give them a voice in how the world is documented.

We write about them.
We plan around them.
But we almost never listen to them.

When Laila comes home from a trip and tells her class about it, the story is always magic. She talks about one moment that stayed with her — not the itinerary.

That’s when it clicked.

What if children weren’t just passengers, but narrators?
What if we preserved how they see the world before it gets filtered or flattened by adulthood?

That’s what Adventures of Laila Pi is.

At its simplest, it’s a travel journal written from a child’s point of view — where she went, what surprised her, what she loved, and what she noticed.

No tips for parents.
No “family-friendly hacks.”
No idealized lifestyle.

Just the world, as a child sees it.

This isn’t about turning my daughter into a brand. It’s about protecting something fleeting and powerful: a child’s unfiltered way of seeing the world — and building a platform that honors that voice.

I want my daughter — and children like her — to grow up knowing the world is bigger than them, curiosity is a strength, and their voice matters in how stories are told.

That’s why this exists.

— Areeje (mom)