My friend J. – who’s a mom of a delightful toddler and is currently pregnant with her second child – likes to travel with her son (OK, and husband too), and is looking forward to traveling more with her children. Recently, she asked me an interesting question about traveling with children: When we travel, what […]
Parenting
Free Range Kids On The Road
I read Lenore Skenazy’s blog Free Range Kids for the first time last month. Seriously, I cannot believe that I missed last year’s media furore when she let her then 9 year old son ride the New York subway home alone – but then again, I’m a working mom and I admit, there are days […]
Ways to get kids excited about exploring the whole wide world…
As a family, we’ve recently been watching some of the episodes on David Attenborough’s Planet Earth DVD. In all honestly, the reason we bought this DVD was to find a family movie which wasn’t Disney, Harry Potter or Cartoon Network. What we’ve discovered is worth writing about in this blog since it was such a […]