Busted! 7 Lame Excuses for Not Traveling with Your Kids
With a little bit of creativity, flexibility and planning, travel with kids can be a rewarding adventure for the whole family.
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Advice: Air Travel
One thing on which all traveling families can agree: air travel as a family isn’t easy, especially with young children. For great words of wisdom about how people of all ages cope, review the articles listed below.
The Many Reasons Why I’m Thankful I Travel with Family
There will come a time when this writer and her husband will travel on their own again, but for now, they travel with family because they want to remember how they became a family.
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Flying with Kids: the Good, the Bad, the Body Fluids
Kids don’t understand that plane’s gotta fly and cars gotta drive and that means they must be still or quiet. Here are a few stories of what it’s actually like to when you’re flying with kids.
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Airlines Need to Think More About How Families Fly
Airlines will need to reconsider the solitary seating and refined cuisine that cater to adult passengers. To win over parents who travel with their little ones in tow they will need to review how families fly.
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Baby on Board: Traveling with Infants
It’s a polarizing issues among travelers, and yet more families than ever are traveling with infants and toddlers on vacations near and far.
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To Keep Families Flying Together, U.S. Congress Passes New Law
The hard work has paid off! Within a year, airlines will be required to keep families flying together thanks to a new law passed by the U.S. Congress.
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A Travel Resource for Parents of Children with Special Needs
All children benefit from traveling. Travel is full of teachable moments. Children with special needs are no different. Travel provides opportunities to practice and improve social and communication skill and promotes cognitive growth.
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Autism-Friendly Travel
Autism-friendly travel for families can be difficult. Here are organizations that aid families traveling with children on the spectrum or with other special needs.
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We Didn’t Get All the Way (Yet!) to Helping Families Flying Together
Last week saw only partial success after the push to support family-friendly language to help families flying together sit together.
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Family Travel Association Helps Congress Push for Families Flying Together Act
The Family Travel Association has thrown its weight behind a congressional effort to pass language from the Families Flying Together Act.
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A Special Flight Program for Special Kids
Kids with autism have difficulties with an overload of the senses. Imagine what a flight is like. So here’s a special flight program that introduces the flight experience to kids with special needs.
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