Heading out on a family trip? Here’s a quick and easy parenting hack to get your kids excited and engaged for each day of your adventure.
My Secret Strategy for Getting Kids to Love Museums
“That’s boring.” For most of their lives, my children happily visited our local air and space and natural history museums. However, any suggestion that we go to an art museum would be met with a chorus of “That’s boring.” Fast forward several years, and my boys enthusiastically spend hours exploring art museums. On a recent […]
Travel Mishaps–Are The Things That Go Wrong What We Remember the Most?
Travel mishaps are a fact of life, but so few people like to admit to them. I hope you will either laugh at or learn from mine and share your own!
Visiting Tatooine
Visit the Star Wars filming locations for Tatooine for a fun-filled family vacation that will thrill kids, tweens, teens, and adults alike.
Cartagena, Colombia. “You’re taking your kids where?”
“I’m sorry, you’re taking your kids where for spring break?” I heard many versions of this question when discussing an upcoming trip with my boys to Colombia for spring break. Let’s just say, the destination’s appeal was not immediately obvious to everyone whose knowledge of the country was either very limited or decades out of date. This […]
Gator Encounter in Everglades National Park
Kayaking with your children in the Everglades is all fun and games until your path is blocked by a 12-foot long alligator. Hear about our heartpounding adventure.