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Traveling Tired: Getting Your Baby to Sleep Anywhere But Home
If anyone tells you that sleep isn’t an issue for tiny travelers, then…well, whatever. Maybe that someone has a unicorn baby who will sleep anywhere, but chances are if you have a baby and you want to travel, you’re going to face a bit of a battle with sleep. Babies don’t like to sleep away…
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Uniquely Utah: Day Trips From Salt Lake City The Kids Will Love
Utah is more than just Jell-O and funeral potatoes. It’s also the state with the highest birth rate, proven by statistics and demonstrated by an enormous range of family-friendly attractions. There are the basics: a zoo, a planetarium, a children’s museum, an aquarium, a pioneer village and a natural history museum all beg for your…
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How I Survived a Road Trip with a One-Year-Old
I’ll admit it. When I got an invite for a family reunion that overlapped with Little Monster’s first birthday, I mostly had a foreboding sense of uh oh. The reunion was either a 13-hour drive away or a two-hour flight, but flights were priced pretty high. We decided to drive, but how exactly were we…
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Just Go! How To Travel With Inflexible Kids
Your child may be less flexible in daily life than an average kid for a number of reasons: physical or mental health issues, pure personality, or even just going through a “stage.” It may be hard to imagine a child who has to eat, sleep, and play on a rigid schedule at home managing to…
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Things to Do with a Baby in Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City is a pretty sweet destination for family travelers. We recently had a family reunion in town and had some time to break away from bowling get-togethers and picnics in the park to explore some of our old haunts around town. My husband grew up in Salt Lake City and lived there for…
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How to Save Money for Traveling…Even When You Have Kids
It’s true. Traveling is expensive. Beyond that, it’s not a necessary expense so it can be really hard to justify why you should spend $3,000 on planes tickets and hotels versus repaving your asphalt driveway at home. And maybe you should pave that driveway. Asphalt would look better than a patch of dirt and gravel…
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How To Get Your Baby Their First Passport
There are lots of reasons to get your baby a passport that have nothing to do with, say, running from the law. Family travel has a lot of great benefits. Maybe you decide to apply for a passport for your little one just in case that super great deal to Tahiti comes along, or your…
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The 10 Commandments of Traveling with Young Kids
Traveling with a child is a whole different ballgame than traveling alone, with friends or with your significant other. My husband and I are still learning the ropes, but to help us along the way, we’ve developed some tips to focus on. Honor Thy Schedule When Thy Can If you’re a schedule-bound mama like me,…
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10 Rules For Road Trips With Kids
We are American, which means we drive approximately 14 hours every summer to get from our house to my parents’ house in Utah. Sometimes we spend the night at a motel halfway, nobody sleeps, and then we fight crying kids back into the car the next day. Sometimes we white-knuckle it through. There’s no great…
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Flying With A Child In Diapers? Read this First!
If doing something over and over again makes you an expert, then I will proudly call myself an expert at changing diapers on airplanes. From six-week-old to a three-year-old, I have wiped a lot of butts at 30,000 feet. That said, when people ask for advice on this topic, I am hesitant. Is there a…
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