Looking for a great place in Northern California to show your kids California’s giant sequoia trees? With easy hiking and camping opportunities? I’ve know just the place… CALAVERAS BIG TREES S.P., ANGELS CAMP, CA – To complete our Eastern Sierra road trip, I felt it was only natural that we should call upon one of…
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! …