I am a naturally anxious parent. As such, I constantly check on my kids. When they’re eating, I check to make sure they’re not choking. When they’re showering, I check to make sure they’re not drowning. When they’re sleeping, I check to make...
About once a week, my husband and I try to sit down with our kids to watch a movie. Our taste runs to adventure films, especially when they’re set in places we’d like to visit. Our theory is this: As long as...
Whether your child is 3 or 13, it can be stressful to leave them at home for the first time to travel without them. First you’ll have to prepare someone to step into your shoes for a few days. Then you’ll need...
Before we had kids, my husband and I pressed the pause button on our careers and spent a month traveling in Turkey. Because the world is big and our time is limited, we don’t usually repeat trips, even great ones. In the case...
Ah, kids. We birth them, feed them, clothe them, and sometimes even manage to bathe them, but do we really understand them? Not to hear my children tell it. When Condé Nast Traveler’s Director of Consumer News and Digital Community, Wendy Perrin, interviewed...
When my kids were young, I used to joke that the only thing worse than traveling with toddlers was staying home with them. At the time we were living in England and all of Europe was tantalizingly close, so off we went (in diapers)...
When I was 10 years old, my father read “The Hobbit” aloud to my sister and me over several weeks. Of course I didn’t realize it at the time, but the tale of how Bilbo Baggins gets dragged out of his comfort zone is...