I am traveling with my wife and 2 kids (ages 2 and 5) this week and we will be on a 737. This is the first time we will have all flown together since we have had to buy each kid their own seat and therefore can no longer fit in one row together.

I’m curious what other people have found to work best for selecting seats for a flight with a similar seating arrangement. We decided to go with filling one row of 3, and then grabbing the aisle seat directly across. However, I almost went with 2 and 2 in back-to-back rows so each kid was with one parent.

What have you found to be best?