It doesn’t matter whether you’re planning a long road trip with your family, or if you spend most of your time in the car playing chauffeur to your kids – a first aid kit is a must have for any parent who spends time behind the wheel.
In most cases, the primary use you’ll get out [...]

Road trips can be a lot of fun, but a long drive in the car isn’t always comfortable for your child.
Parents tend to forget that toddler booster seats and child car seats can be pretty hard to sit in for several hours in a row. It’s hard to think about that when our own seat [...]

My toddler likes to bring her stuffed animals and dolls along on car rides, and I certainly don’t mind. They keep her occupied and give her a ‘friend’ so that she feels comforted.
But as little kids tend to do, she likes to treat her stuffed animals as real. She wants them to be warm and [...]

Many parents these days plan smaller vacations, like weekend trips or a few days with the family. It’s a break from the routine and can be a lot of fun.
But it can also be too much, as families try to pack big events and lots of stuff to do into just a handful of days. [...]

Air travel with kids can be a tough process. In addition to all the hassle of keeping children entertained in the air, increased security measures make it more difficult than ever before to get your kids, their carry-ons, and any necessary strollers, booster seats, or car seats through the checkpoints. Of course, safety is an [...]

There’s almost nothing worse than taking a long car trip with a child who gets carsick. Not only is there the potential for some pretty awful messes to clean up, but children who get carsick easily tend to be much more irritable and upset when it comes time to go on a trip – which [...]

At my house, car trips – whether long or short – are almost always accompanied by good travel toys. Kids have a tendency to offer distractions to the driver unless they are entertained, and while many of today’s minivans and SUVs are equipped with television screens, most parents aren’t quite so blessed.
If you’re going to [...]

I’ll admit it. I’m a planner. When I take the kids on a long road trip, I tend to spend quite a bit of time planning out where we’ll stop for bathroom breaks and toddler-can’t-take-sitting-still-another-minute breaks. I know how much gas I need and where it will be best to fill up. I’ve even worked [...]

In a perfect world, you’d have an array of tasty, healthy snacks prepared for car travel every single day. Not only that, but they’d be things your kids adore, too. Homemade fruit chips. Whole grain cereal in perfectly sized baggies. An emergency peanut butter sandwich or two.
Of course, in real life, most of us are [...]

It’s become fairly standard knowledge that children aged 8 and under must practice booster seat or car seat safety in order to comply with local driving laws. Most of us have become accustomed to the laws and do our best to keep our children safe, regardless of whether we’re traveling home from the grocery store [...]