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Don’t Leave Home Without Your TravelKiddy Activity Kit
Friends are always asking me what I bring to occupy my toddler when we’re travelling on a plane or driving long distances. TravelKiddy is a website with fun, creative ideas on exactly that; their store sells travel kits packed with mini toys and easy crafts to occupy the smallest baby to the most active kid. With several sizes for differe...
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Travel Agency Will Send Your Toys On A Vacation
You may not be able to send your kids jetsetting around Europe, but a Czech “toy travel agency” is offering the next best thing. Box up their stuffed animals and send them on the trip instead. They’ll take photos of the toys in front of all the hot tourist spots, then send him home. Think of it as Flat Stanley with thei...
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They Say: Infant Car Seats Not Safe For Sleeping
Age old wisdom tells us never to wake a sleeping baby. But if your newborn is asleep in her infant car seat, a new study published in Pediatrics suggests that — at the risk of waking her or not — you should move your sleeping baby to a crib when you get home. From Health.com: “Car seats and car beds can result in mild respirat...
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Bookworm: 500 Places To Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up
Before you plan a Griswald summer road trip, check out this great book for family travel. Packed with family-friendly destinations that will create lasting learning experiences for your children, Frommer’s 500 Places To Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up is an amazing resource. In it are cities, zoos, sports shrines, museums, castles, beac...
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Toddler On Board
"Won't someone shut that child up?" said a bathroom attendant as I hurried into a cubicle at Milford Sound wharf. I didn't tell her that was my child running around the waiting room, shrieking at the top of his lungs, as my husband struggled to catch him. Yes, perhaps my plans for a peaceful 10-day family road trip through the scenic South Islan...
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Etsy Alert: Have Skirt Will Travel
I love travel ephemera, snow domes, vintage maps and especially those old school souvenir table clothes. Etsy maker Three Little Ladies has utilised the latter not as a table covering but has transformed the fabric into an adorable little girl’s skirt. This A-line number highlights American landmarks like Niagara Falls, Old Faithful and the R...
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Beaching It
Times may be tough, but there's one thing that Aussies are refusing to give up - the classic beach holiday. Despite the gloomy economic outlook, decreasing mortgage rates and petrol prices mean that families have a little extra cash in the piggy bank to spend this summer. Cathy Wagstaff, editor of the Holidays with Kids website and magazine,...
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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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More And More Destinations Cater To The Autistic
One of my greatest fantasies is to take the kind of family vacation my friends take with their children - one involving a beautiful, tropical resort with a kids' club, where the kids have a blast and the parents have some time alone, and then everyone gets together for a fabulous meal and maybe some wholesome activities like bingo or square dan...
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