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10 Tips for Traveling with Babies
Are you staring down your first big trip with baby and shaking in your boots? Travel with infants can terrify even the most seasoned pre-kid travelers. Jenn Miller, mother and road warrior, shares her ten tips for success when traveling with young children, and a couple of horror stories as well.
13 Tips for Easier Travel with Small Children
Parents might get nervous about traveling with children, check experienced in traveling with a kid by herself Marilia´s tips on how to make this easier
21 Reasons to Travel Around the World with Kids…From Those Who Have Done It
People often say that they want to travel while they’re young because once they have kids, it’ll be too late. Adam Seper talks to several families who are doing long-term travel with kids to find out just how false that misconception is and how rewarding it is to explore the world as a family.
30 Places and 5 Ways to Learn More Through Travel
Winter vacation is upon us and spring break is coming. Professional educator, Stacey Ebert, discusses the ways to maximize education through holiday travel travel for your kids.
5 (Selfish) Reasons to Travel With Your Kids
Forget the educational, social and longterm benefits of travel for children. Jenn Miller enumerates the immediate benefits for parents: Just imagine, a whole year off of Soccer Saturdays, kid’s parties, minivan life, and the judgement of fellow parents. Sign me up.
5 Great Parks in Europe for Families
Some of the most enjoyable attractions in Europe don’t cost a cent. Deanna Hyland shares 5 of her favorite parks in Europe that are much more than just a patch of lawn.
5 Road Schooling Ideas
One important aspect of long term travel with kids that must be considered is education. Jenn Miller has home schooled her kids since birth and is in her eighth year of road schooling them as they adventure. Read along and think through your philosophy, curriculum options, and hands on ideas for how to make it happen as you hit the road.
5 Steps to Simplify Family Travel
Most travelers trade their backpacks for a diaper bag and assume that their free-wheeling travel days are over. Jenn Miller shows that travel with children does not have to mean Disney World and it doesn’t have to mean misery either.
5 Tips for a Stress-Free Road Trip with Kids
Having children doesn’t necessarily mean an end to travel. Astrid Vinje provides tips for making road trips with children much easier.
6 Ways that Traveling with Kids Can Actually Improve Your Travel Experience
When you start having a family you might assume your travelin’ days are behind you, but Karen Banes has 6 great reasons why children can make the travel experience even better.
7 Family-Friendly Services That Make Family Travel Easier (and More Fun!)
Family travel can be a hassle, but it doesn’t need to be. Isabel Eva Bohrer shares seven family-friendly services are sure to make your next vacation a relaxing one.
7 Reasons Why Traveling With Your Parents Isn’t a Bad Idea
Depending on your age, the thought of traveling with your parents might sound horrifying. But seriously, it can be much better than you might expect, for a variety of reasons. Here are just 7 of those from Eileen Smith.
7 Steps to Planning (and Surviving) Multigenerational Travel
If there’s an art to traveling with your kids, then traveling with your kids AND your parents might just qualify as an Olympic sport. Claudia M. Laroye offers 7 steps to get you on the road to a successful multigenerational trip.
8 Things Every Traveling Parent Should Know
Traveling with kids doesn’t have to be something to dread as long as you are prepared. Deanna Hyland shares 8 secrets from the road that all parents should know before they depart.
Are Cruises Safe? A Cruise Safety Guide For Parents
More than 11 million US passengers went on a cruise in 2014 but generated only 34 reported incidents. And this trend seems to stay stable year after year.
Baby Takes Off
If you think your traveling days are behind you once you have a baby, think again. With a little advance planning, traveling with babies is not only possible, it can be enjoyable for you and your child. Admittedly, it is extra work. Just because you leave home doesn’t mean you leave your parental responsibilities behind.
Can Families Travel Indie-Style On a Tour?
There are lots of travel myths floating around out there. Two of the biggest are that you can’t take a real indie trip as a family, and you can’t have an indie travel experience on a guided tour. Adam Seper is here to dispel those myths and show you how to do both.
Ecotourism for the Whole Family
Many people assume that eco travel is for hippies and backpackers, but more and more families are jumping on the bandwagon. Christine Garvin shows five destinations that are great for families looking to reduce their carbon footprint.
Family Health and Safety on a RTW Trip
If you’re taking off on an adventure with your family, then health and safety are going to be two of your biggest concerns. Take some time and carefully think through your plans for keeping people healthy and safe on the road! Jenn Miller will walk you through the basics!
Fear of Flying… with Children
Finally on the ground in Italy, Page and her two kids take a break outside the Vatican museum in Rome. “Please don’t let me be seated next to a baby! God, please don’t let me be seated next to a baby!” This was my silent mantra in my previous life as a carefree, single woman.
Fight or Flight – Realities of Travel With Kids
Travel with kids isn’t always an Instagram perfect experience, trust me. Let’s talk about authenticity and family travel.
Five Reasons Parents Should Travel With Their Kids
Many families debate whether or not traveling with their kids is a worthwhile or healthy thing to do. Hannah Miller, a teen who’s traveled all over the world, shares a few of the reasons family travel is not only a good thing, but a highly beneficial way of life for both parents and children!
Five Tips For Camping With Kids
Jenn Miller has lived in tents for much of her life, on multiple continents, and with four kids. She shares her best tips for camping with kids. Say your “Hail Marys,” pack a few “Hallelujahs” and dive in for an unforgettable camping adventure with your kids.
Five Ways to Prepare Your Kids For Big-Time Adventure
Thought your traveling days were over when your parenting days began? Think again! With Jenn Miller’s hands-on approach to preparing kids for big-time adventure your family is sure to have loads of fun and be road ready.
Getting Kids On Board With Your Big Trip
Jennifer Sutherland-Miller unpacks her toolkit for helping kids, from littles to teens, get on board and contribute to the family dream!
Gift Guide: 20 Gear Gift Ideas for Traveling Parents
Got a traveling parent on your holiday gift list? Expectant mother Heather Carreiro offers 20 ideas for new and expecting parents who love to travel.
Give Memories, Not Things: Using Travel to Celebrate Milestones
After living out of a backpack or bike panniers for over five years, Jenn Miller discusses why she’ll take making memories with the people she loves over tangible gifts every single time.
Giving Teens the Freedom To Travel
Would you let your child backpack alone with only other teens at 14? How ’bout play music gigs in bars at 15? Would you let your 13 year old live and work with college students on a farm a thousand miles away? Would you let your kids go out for dinner in a strange city, in Thailand, at night, alone? Jenn Miller has let her kids do all of these things and more. In this article she makes the argument for expanding the freedom of teenagers and expecting the very best as a result. You gave them root
How Long-Term Travel Made Me a Better Parent
Jenn Miller steps outside th Mommy Wars to share how travel has made her a better parent
How a Family Packs for Long Term Travel
Jenn Miller has been traveling with her four children for seven years straight, across five continents, through more than thirty countries, by bicycle, foot, ferry, bus, train, airplane and more. They’ve lived in tents for a year at a time and put their feet up at the Four Seasons. If you’re wondering what to pack and how to pack it for any sort of adventure with kids, she can help you.
How to Develop Character in Your Children (and Yourself) Through Travel
If you are wondering whether it would be worth it to bring your young children on a trip with you, reading Rachel Denning’s experiences and advice will likely convince you.
How to Make Museum Trips Fun for Your Kids
Art education is part of any child’s holistic learning process and one of the best ways to develop art appreciation is to bring your children to a museum. Prime Sarmiento gives some tips on how to make museum trips fun and interesting for kids (and adults too!).
How to Raise Good Citizens – Fostering Multi-Generational Travel
Travel can so easily expand family relationships. Parents, give the gift of adventure.
How to Survive a Flight with Your Children
Flying with small kids doesn’t have to be a nightmare – for you or the other passengers on the plane. Deanna Hyland delivers these must-know tips to flying with your children.
How to Visit Washington, DC with Kids
Jenn Miller has never quite forgiven her parents for not taking her to Washington DC as a child, she’s making up for it by dragging her kids all over the capital time and again. She’ll show you where to stay, what’s cheap or free, how to make the National Gallery into a treasure hunt for your kids, and more.
How to tell your family and friends you are leaving
So you are thinking about going around the world. How should you talk to your family and friends about leaving for a few years? Shikha Dhawan offers five very helpful pieces of advice.
In Defense of Multi-Generational Travel
Jennifer Miller has been traveling since before she was born… sometimes with her parents, sometimes with her kids. When she’s very lucky, with both at the same time. Multi-generational travel may not be easy, but it’s very worth it. She’ll give you three good reasons to dive into the deep end of the world and take your parents.
Intergenerational Travel – 10 Pros & Cons of Traveling With My Parents
When I decided I needed a big overseas holiday last year, the last thing I planned to do was to go with my parents.
It’s Not What You Think: Long Term Family Travel
Jenn Miller has a PhD in family travel earned from the University of Crazy Mamas Abroad. With four kids and nearly 30 countries across five continents under her belt, she’s certified to tell it like it really is.
Kiddie Pool-Anyone? Smart Travel for the Budget Weary Family
Although the prospect of lighting up the coals on the ole’ grill brings back fond memories of summers past, Americans are overlooking the heart of the situation. Family vacations are at the core of
Leaping Off The Page: 10 Literary Locations To Visit With Kids
Forget Harry Potter’s Wizarding World. Joanne O’Sullivan discovers literary destinations that will leave kids with a longer lasting impression than they can get from a ride on a hippogriff roller coaster.
Les Trois Mousquetaires go to France, Italy and maybe a few other places #1
My family and friends (and my older girl herself) think I am out of my mind to want to travel with my two teenage girls (13½ and almost 12). It’s not just a teenage thing, “Mom, it’s going to be so booorriiing,” or “Mom, what do you mean we are going to walk a lot
Life Without Toys – Minimalist Family Travel
Simplify your family travel life with a bit of creative thinking and a roll of tape.
Long Term Travel As Education
Have you ever wondered what long term traveling families “do about keeping up with school” for their kids? Perhaps you’re asking the wrong question. Jenn Miller, world schooling mother of four, teacher by trade, discusses world schooling as a viable educational alternative.
Making the World Your Global Classroom – Science Edition
If you travel to learn just as much as to get away, or if you are a traveling family looking to take your kids on the ultimate field trip, check out this boots on the ground class, Volcanology and Geothermal Energy 101.
Miami Nice – Family Fun in South Beach, Florida
Traveling to South Beach with toddlers may not be an obvious choice, what with the drag shows, 36 oz. giant drinks, and scantily-clad bodies everywhere, but Michelle Lafleur will show you that there are enough kid-friendly activities to keep little ones entertained on a budget that parents can afford.
No Contest! 4 Reasons Why Family Travel Beats Sports
Are sports wearing your family down? Stop collecting participation trophies and start collecting passport stamps.
One Family’s Journey to Full Time Travel
Seven years into open-ended world travel, Jenn Miller shares a secret: She never meant to travel long-term. Jenn shares the plans, hard work, and serendipities that transformed their one year journey into an epic adventure of a lifetime.
Overland Travel With Kids
Taking a one day drive to Grandma’s house, or a long day of flight travel between home and a holiday, is an entirely different kind of travel than long form overland travel with kids. Jenn Miller shares her hard earned wisdom on how to travel the hard way with children.
Preparing Young Children To Fly
Jenn Miller has been traveling with kids for nineteen years across six continents and nearly nearly 40 countries. She has a master’s degree in toddler travel, having ridden that merry-go-round five times over a ten year span. She weighs in on airplane etiquette for children, how to prepare at home, and structure for success.
RV Road Trip Considerations
2013 is the “Year of the Road Trip” for Jenn Miller, and she shares what she’s learned from the road-school of hard knocks about RVing on several continents. Considering an extended RV journey? Here are some questions to ask and points to consider.
Redefining Family-Friendly Travel – Five New Ideas for Places to Take the Kids
Sick of Disney Land and Sea World? Why not take your kids to Lago de Atitlan or Prague instead? Jenn Miller shares her tips for making any destination “family friendly” as well as six places you should definitely take your kids.
Redefining Road Travel, Family Style
Traveling with kids requires new road trip tactics. Redefine what it means to be on the road with these family-friendly solutions.
Round the World Family Budget Planning
Starting to work out your budget for a family RTW journey? Start here! Jenn Miller talks costs and variables. Seven real traveling families share their budget numbers to help get you started!
Seven Unique Ideas For Summer Road Trips
Summer is road trip season! Pack your bags, grab your kids, tie Grandma on the roof, and buckle up as Jenn Miller offers some “twisted” road trip fun that even the most jaded traveler (even a fourteen year old one) is sure to enjoy.
Sharing Travel With A New Generation
A vocal advocate for the benefits of travel for young people, Jenni describes her top reasons for happily sharing her own travel experiences with “other people’s children.”
Take Five: Family Travel Timetable
Summer is creeping closer and closer and now is the time to wrap up planning the family summer get-away. Here’s a helpful family travel planning timetable to help you get ready.
Ten Awesome Activities in Hawaii for Kids
Anne Patrone recommends activities that that will entertain kids of all ages, ensuring that a Hawaii vacation with the younger members of your family doesn’t mean your days will be spent at the kiddie pool.
The Best Family Campgrounds in the U.S.
If you haven’t been camping, then you don’t know what you’re missing. Bill H. Cooper shows us that there are some wonderful family campgrounds in the US and some are even resorts.
The Family Life: Can your time abroad be enhanced by homestay? – Costa Rica, Central America
A little piece of Deanna Wertheimer’s fate was determined by her choice against homestay as an undergraduate for her year abroad in Spain. When she went to Costa Rica for a five-day stint, she got som
The New Parent’s Guide to Travel with an Infant
Travel with a baby can be daunting, especially for new parents. Frequent traveler and new mom, Jenn Molholt, has some tips that help get you to your destination.
Tips for Traveling with Children
Children can have a hard time adjusting to change and many are nervous for their first time flying in a plane. Paige Green offers advice to parents to help them prepare their children for flying.
Transportation 101
Ever wonder what world schooling looks like? Vickie Lillo believes that the world is the best classroom, for adults and children alike. Along with her son Nicholas, take her Transportation 101. Explore all the ways of getting there, learn and be inspired as you go.
Traveling With Kids – A Secret Worth Sharing
A couple travels around the world with their young daughter to discover some surprising and unexpected benefits of traveling with little ones.
Traveling With Kids: 5 Tips for Staying Safe
Traveling with kids is different than traveling alone, or as a couple. Jenn Miller has spent two decades adventuring with children, on all continents. She shares five tips for making it safer, no matter whether you’re headed across the state to Grandma’s, or around the world to the edge of the world.
Vegas Babies: Doing Sin City With Toddlers In Tow
Rex Crum and his wife always wanted to experience Las Vegas together. And they still need to after the experience of Sin City with their two little daughters.
What Travel Has Meant to My Education
At 18, Hannah Miller shares insight on what 7+ years of travel on five continents have meant to her education.
Why Croatia is the Ultimate Indie Travel Destination for Families
A relaxing, independently-planned family vacation is often just a question of finding the right destination. For Jane Graham and her family, that destination was Croatia and its islands – here’s why.
Why It’s Not Selfish for Parents to Travel With Young Children
You may (or may not) think traveling with young children is selfish, but Rachel Denning expounds on why taking young children on travel excursions is entirely for the children’s benefit, not the parents.
Why You Should Hostel with Your Family
Hosteling is not just for the young gap-year traveler anymore. Jennifer Miller shows families how to choose a hostel, what to pack, how to make the most of the experience, and maybe even score a private room. (Hint: have more kids!)
You Can Travel After the Kids Are Gone
Travel is for twenty-somethings and retirees. Kids don’t need the mind-expansion or exposure to things outside their little corner of the world. Keep them home; you can travel once they’re gone.
“I’m Taking Off to See the World!” How to Tell Your Parents
Breaking the news that you’re going traveling can cause a parental freak out of epic proportions. By preparing answers to the most common questions you can downgrade your parents’ concern from panic to everyday worry. Jo Fitzsimons shows you how.
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