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Should the FAA force parents to buy seats for babies and toddlers?

Join the conversation! Please, share your own thoughts on this with a comment below this post. In case you haven’t yet heard, there is a petition circulating in an effort to end the practice of allowing babies and toddlers less than 2 years old to fly as “lap children” on airplanes in the U.S.  While…

toddler flying in airplane seat with CARES harness

Four Ways to Keep a Toddler from Kicking the Airplane Seat in Front of You

Worried your toddler will not stop kicking the airplane seat in front of you on your next flight? You are not alone. Chances are there are a half dozen parents on your same flight worried their child may do the same, not to mention passengers on your future flight who may be seated in front…

Baby not sleeping on an airplane, riding in the FlyeBaby air travel hammock.
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Ask Shelly: Tips for helping a baby sleep on an airplane – and stay asleep?

Advice for helping a baby sleep on an airplane? This is the million-dollar question of most parents flying with a baby – right along with how to keep them sleeping once you are lucky enough to get them there… Here is a recent reader question I’m sure many of you will appreciate. Hi Shelly: Do you have…

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When can kids safely fly without a car seat on airplanes?

With so much in the works around here recently (great stuff! I know I keep hinting, but I promise a big reveal soon…), the sixth birthday of this blog flew by without ceremony. What seems even more amazing, is that I purchased the TravelswithBaby.com website nine years ago, where I first began addressing travel with…