Tag: parenting

My “Tips” on Traveling with Kids

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Someone recently asked me for my thoughts on traveling with kids.  Any tips, tricks, ideas, etc.

My first thought was to demur.  I don’t really have any special insight.  You just sort of do it, right?

But then I realized I do have thoughts.  Or at least things that have worked for us.  So here are my travel things that have worked for us.  Some are Italy specific.  Some work for anywhere.

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In defense of phones . . . or at least in defense of not judging others

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10.9_In defense of phones . . . or at least in defense of not judging others

Someone I know posted on Facebook about seeing a mom pushing a kid on a swing while checking her phone AND reading the newspaper with a “way to be present” remark.

In one of his specials Louis C.K. cracks on the mom on her phone on the park bench while he PLAYS with his kids.

I don’t like this.

It makes me uncomfortable.

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