August 23rd, 2010 | by travelsavvymom 8 comments
Tales2Go is an app that puts an enormous library of children's audio stories at your fingertips for a very reasonable subscription price of $24.99/year. Play them over your car's speakers or pass the phone on back.
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August 2nd, 2010 | by Jamie Pearson Comment
Much as it pains us to admit it, we at Travel Savvy Mom can't personally go everywhere, do everything, and then report back to our readers. Not a week goes by that we don't get an email asking for family travel advice that we aren't qualified to give.
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July 15th, 2010 | by Kayt Sukel 6 comments
You're packed up and ready for that trip. You've strategically placed three new coloring books, new crayons, a few small toys, snacks and who knows what else to help distract your child on that plane ride. But what have you packed to distract you?
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July 1st, 2010 | by Jamie Pearson 9 comments
Some people take great comfort in statistics and knowledge. If you're one of these people, this post's for you. Personally my right brain (where imagination and emotion live) pretty much always runs circles around my left brain (home of logic and intellectual knowledge).
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June 24th, 2010 | by Jamie Pearson 6 comments
Picture this: you're sitting somewhere in the main cabin of a Boeing 737 about 30,000 up in the air when suddenly the plane starts to shake. As if the physical sensation isn't bad enough, everything is rattling noisily too. When you lift your eyes to gaze up the aisle, you can actually see the fuselage flexing.
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June 17th, 2010 | by Jamie Pearson 4 comments
The program promises to change how you feel before you fly and how you feel while you fly. The various videos gauge your anxiety level during a simulated flight, explain the causes of high anxiety and panic, teach you a strengthening exercise, and educate you about turbulence and how planes work.
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June 16th, 2010 | by Kayt Sukel Comment
Here at Travel Savvy Mom, we get asked a lot about the nitty gritty details of our trips - where we went, how we got around, where and what we ate, where a semi-clean restroom might be found and, more often than not, where the nearest exit of a given attraction is.
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June 10th, 2010 | by Jamie Pearson 6 comments
If you're anything like me, you probably tried a few do-it-yourself treatments when your fear of flying went from bad to worse. I rationalized that air travel was statistically safe, scolded myself for being ridiculous, and pretended I was on a bus.
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June 3rd, 2010 | by Jamie Pearson 6 comments
My own fear of flying took me completely by surprise. Back when I traveled for business, I never gave aviation safety a second thought. Turbulence was no problem, and I used to sleep through take-off and landing more often than not.
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May 27th, 2010 | by travelsavvymom 322 comments
Sometimes it seems like business travelers have it made. Criss-crossing the country, they rack up frequent flier miles ten times faster than the rest of us. And they also earn a lot of free hotel stays through loyalty programs.
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