A delightfully low-tech gift for junior travel-lovers
With high travel prices and a down dollar, this may not be the time to take your little explorers on vacation. But that doesn’t mean you can’t show them the world. Lerner Publishing just came out with updated editions of their “Seven Wonders�? series, so budding travelers, history buffs [...]

Learn a foreign language easily
Planning a vacation abroad? When you're toting a few children and enough gear to outfit the army of the country you’re visiting, flipping through your phrasebook so you can eek out, “Where's the bathroom?�? is one hassle you don't want to endure. Of course, your last experience with a foreign language [...]

Now that some airlines charge for food, luggage and advanced seat assignments, it's no surprise that pillow and blanket service have gone the way of fine china and nattily dressed flight attendants. Of course, even if there are pillows and blankets aplenty, do you really want to wrap yourself or your little guys in an [...]

Summer's over and our passion for reading People and US Weekly is still there but we feel a little more needy for substance. But not so much so that we want completely serious stuff. Open up Gorgeously Green-8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life for a perfect formula mix of the substantial and sub-stantial parts [...]

If you can’t understand why the lull of the car or the hum of the plane sends your child’s stomach contents into a tailspin, think morning sickness and you’ll get it.
Instead of getting perturbed (although always sympathetic) when your child hurls all over the backseat, the plane seat, or better yet his (or your) clothes, [...]