Need recommendations for lightweight, portable baby travel beds? Or perhaps a portable bed for your toddler or preschooler? Or still other solutions to help kids sleep safe and sound on vacation? (Ah, precious sleep!) Scroll down to browse truly travel-friendly travel beds, bassinets, and other clever products to help with your next family adventure. Note:…
Chances are you have enough other things to worry about these days, so keeping mosquitos at bay — and off your bébé — during your vacation shouldn’t be one of them. For those of you planning a family camping trip or travel to other mosquito-friendly destinations, here is a timely excerpt from Chapter 8: Health…
Be road-trip ready with this family road trip safety packing list. It’s all too easy to assume our smartphones will help us out of any difficulty we may encounter on a family road trip. But not only can those smart-when-they-work gadgets lose signal the moment you really begin to rely on that navigation–or need to…
Greetings from my home in the San Francisco Bay Area, where we’re finishing week 2 of our shelter-in-place order. We’ve got two parents working at home with three “distance learning” kids at home. Chances are your family scene looks a bit like ours? (AKA controlled chaos?) If so, just remember when you start to feel…
Spring break plans are changing by the moment for many of us–even Disneyland announced this afternoon it will close its theme parks in California (and now Disneyworld, too). And as I just updated this before hitting publish, I got a district email that my kids will be on “spring break” early–and for three weeks. SO! …
Flying with a car seat soon? The very words strike fear in the hearts of many parents, but not to worry. Just consider these five points for families flying with babies and young children before you board an airplane with a car seat! And you’ll have a better idea of what to expect, how to…