When getting to a family vacation destination is going to demand hours and hours in a car, keeping the kids behaved and engaged is a chore to say the least. No matter how old or young they are confinement in a car seat or seat belt can take its toll.
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When family vacation time conflicts with the school calendar, there is often a cause for panic. As long as you commit yourself and your child to keeping up with the program during the trip, however, everything should go fine. In most cases, children can survive a week out of school and still pull off excellent [...]
When a family vacation is on tap, a lot of planning tends to go into the destination and what to do while you’re there. Many parents, however, overlook the road part of a road trip. If overnight stays are necessary to break up a drive, some attention is in order for finding a family [...]
Day one of a road trip can be rather exciting for the entire family, but by the time the second morning rolls around the atmosphere tends to change. If your family trip is going to involve more than a single day in a vehicle on the way to a destination, chances are you’re going to [...]
With more Americans struggling just to make ends meet, the big family road trip is just out of reach for many. This doesn’t mean, however, that vacations need to be a thing of the past. Closer, less expensive destinations can serve families very well in this time of belt tightening.
Taking weekend trips closer to home [...]