December 14th, 2008 | by Jamie Pearson 12 comments
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side·track (sīd´trăk): n. 1. A diversion from the main course. 2. A detour taken with children that you would never, ever take without them.
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Who:
Travel Savvy Mom founder Jamie Pearson and her 5-year-old son.
What and Where:
Bay Quackers Duck Tour. ......
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December 5th, 2008 | by Sascha Zuger 9 comments
My five-year-old was a bit apprehensive about meeting these aliens at the space-themed restaurant Mars 2112 in New York last month.
This leeriness might have been born from the slight misunderstanding that he was hopping the 1 train at 50th and......
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November 20th, 2008 | by Jamie Pearson 9 comments
A few years ago, my Mom and I took my kids on a vacation to Ireland. We decided to stay in an absolute pearl of a town called Kenmare, on the Ring of Kerry. It was ridiculously cute.
I can clearly......
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November 9th, 2008 | by Kayt Sukel 13 comments
If you own any Sesame Street DVD or video, you probably know that they do programming across the globe. You can find Vila Sésamo in Brazil, Zhima Jie in China and even Alam Simsim in Egypt. Usually, these versions of......
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November 3rd, 2008 | by Jamie Pearson 10 comments
Regular readers of this blog will no doubt have noticed my affinity for wordy prefaces. Unlike me though it is, I think I'll let the following video speak for itself.
The Birds and the Bees. And the Goats. from......
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October 29th, 2008 | by Jody Mace 19 comments
The problem with taking American kids to live in England is that no matter what you do they're still, well, American. They can call their friends "mate," play "stuck in the mud" instead of "freeze tag," and eat biscuits, but......
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October 26th, 2008 | by Kayt Sukel 8 comments
My mother-in-law has a great story about my husband's brother, Tommy. Back when Tommy was about four years old, he took a shine to an elderly woman's cane during a trip to the library. My mother-in-law still flushes......
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October 13th, 2008 | by Jamie Pearson 7 comments
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side·track (sīd´trăk): n. 1. A diversion from the main course. 2. A detour taken with children that you would never, ever take without them.
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Who:
The Pearson family. Two adults (one of whom spoke French very badly, the other not......
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September 30th, 2008 | by Jamie Pearson 31 comments
It's only fair to warn you that the following video is:
a) hopelessly amateurish
b) full of parrots
c) significantly longer than 60 seconds
That said, my husband almost had a laughter-induced asthma attack playing with the freeze frame feature with the various clips.
He......
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September 14th, 2008 | by Jamie Pearson 33 comments
On the first day of school last week, I caught up with a few friends at the PTA coffee. This was a thinly-disguised recruiting event, but frankly anyone who thinks I'm going to volunteer for lice check after spending 80......
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