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Babble Best: Tuscany
Bringing kids to Tuscany, the most romantic of Italian regions, seems almost as absurd as letting your five-year-old order a $50 truffle-garnished hamburger. Will your brood be able to appreciate fully the vineyard dotted vistas, quaint piazzas, and history lessons around every corner? Not very likely. But there is plenty in Tuscany to appeal to th...
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Travels with Baby: Soldier Boy
Twenty years of global travel has made me pretty choosy about souvenirs, but Milo is too green to resist the siren song of the colourful wares festooning the tourist trails. Not that his acquisition lust is confined to the kitsch cranked out for foreign visitors. It started in a Budapest subway station, when he caught sight of some Yu-Gi-Oh-ish tra...
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Hey, Mickey!
I have never been anti-Disney snob; I don't understand the freelance disregard for something that clearly brings joy to so many kids. But when my parents invited me and my children on a weekend trip to Disney World, I was torn. I'd never so much as been on an airplane with my three- and one-year-old boys, and I viewed Disney as the Everest of toddl...
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Travels With Baby: Wing and a Prayer
Flying to Osaka For a long time, we were paranoid about how the kid would behave on a plane. But then we realised what a baby did mattered less than what the parents did in response. As long as you made good faith — or at least visible — efforts to keep your kid quiet, the people around you are usually forgiving. And besides,...
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