When I board an airplane with my kids, it’s hard to know what I want to hit first with my antibacterial hand wipes: The safety belt buckles? The arm rests? Or the fold-out tray where our gadgets and goodies and snacks will inevitably end up? The “Trayblecloth” goes one better than a wipe–at least where…
Visiting Barcelona with kids 5 years or younger? This guest post has you covered with recommendations from Tamara Cosano, a resident mom and CEO of Easy Travel Kids, a baby gear rental agency in Barcelona. She not only knows all about enjoying Barcelona with kids, but she also knows all about helping visitors enjoy Barcelona…
Heads up to those of you entertaining thoughts of renting family-friendly villas in Europe! I recently discovered Oliver’s Travels, a company that makes it very easy to find family-friendly villas that are a good fit based on your children’s ages and stages—baby and toddler, grade school-age kids, or tweens and teens. You might also appreciate…
Greetings from my kitchen table! We are home from our 2850-mile roadtrip around the American southwest, and I’m happy to say we saw NO carsickness on the return portion of our road trip. As we’ve been discussing on the Facebook page and in the blog, carsickness can happen when you least expect it, and even to…
In my travels before babies, Jardin du Luxembourg was a favorite place to stroll and soak up Paris. And even with a baby in tow, we managed to carve out a little smooch time by its lovely Fontaine de Medici. With three kids along for the ride, however, I was thrilled—okay, we all were—to discover…
Practicing reading first grade “decodables” for school on the balcony of our apartment in Spain as the sun sets. Following the earlier post this week, “Will you take your kids out of school for travel,” we had some interesting discussion on the Travels with Baby facebook page about when, if ever, it’s wise to do…