Looking For The Ideal Age To Travel With Your Kids? LOL

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May 30, 2022

KEEP DREAMING Looking For The Ideal Age To Travel With Your Kids? LOL   Today is Memorial Day, which means it's officially summer, the season of family travel plans. Which — as we all know — becomes extremely complicated once you have kids. You're always juggling somebody's nap, or toting 37 pounds of snacks, or physically carrying an exhausted child through the last two miles of an amusement park.  Are you waiting for the ideal stage to travel with your kids? Well, Jessica G. Hartshorn has some bad news. She's traveled all over with her kids for years, and "Nothing broke me, that is, until my teens, according to popular myth 'old enough to appreciate' travel, were absolute and total brats on an amazing trip to Europe." It's not an argument against traveling — just a case for throwing up your hands and accepting the chaos.  — Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor   READ MORE

I'LL TURN THIS CAR AROUND The Family Road Trip Is A Special Hell   Have you ever had a road trip go so catastrophically wrong you had to toss a vomit-covered car seat into a gas-station dumpster midway through the trip? Hampton Williams Hofer has! Read More   DIVORCE It's A Mixed Bag Of Emotions When Your Kids Go On Vacation With Your Ex   It can be hard, and you may feel profoundly ambivalent, but the time for yourself can be invaluable. Read More   VACATION I've Survived 14 Transatlantic Flights With Kids, And You Can Too   "It will be a window-licking, drink-spilling, shriek-stifling rumpus, until a precious head finally rests on your arm and the seatbelt sign dings at the precise moment your bladder can wait no longer." Read More

FRESH AIR DOES THE FAMILY GOOD HGTV's Nate Berkus & Jeremiah Brent Share Their Favorite Tips For Getting Kids Outside   Maybe your destination is the backyard this year. In that case, check out this interview with Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent, the married designers behind the eponymous HGTV show, about how to actually get your kids out the door. For one thing, they've got suggestions for organizing your space outside: "We compartmentalize the spaces on the exterior that are the children's, so not like they can only play in a corner, but you know, if we have a swing set, it's in a designated area that's theirs."   READ MORE

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