June 3rd, 2010 | by Jamie Pearson 9 comments
Afraid of flying? Terrified of turbulence? You're not alone.
Back in 1980, the Boeing Company published a report that revealed that one out of every three adult Americans was afraid of flying. Among the fearful fliers, 73% were frightened of in-flight......
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May 27th, 2010 | by travelsavvymom 325 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 various loyalty programs.
Now......
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May 5th, 2010 | by travelsavvymom 9 comments
Welcome to the May 5, 2010 edition of the Carnival of Cities, where we go around the world in eighty links (or however many we get).
This is our first time hosting. If it's your first time visiting, then welcome and......
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March 19th, 2010 | by travelsavvymom Comment
Win a $200 Marriott Gift Card from Six Suitcase Travel
Our good friend and contributor Theresa Jorgensen is running a fun contest on her site, SixSuitcaseTravel.com (which is all about family travel for larger families and very useful) that's well worth......
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March 16th, 2010 | by Jane Rytina 184 comments
My children are 7 and 4 and I have spent the last few years listening to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Disney classics and Crayola Kids in my car. There have been times when I'd wake up in a sweat mumbling......
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March 15th, 2010 | by Jamie Pearson 4 comments
As pretty much any parent of school aged children will tell you, repetition is the soul of parenthood. Anybody can do a load of laundry, scrape some uneaten tater tots into the garbage, and force a recalcitrant child to......
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March 4th, 2010 | by travelsavvymom 71 comments
Today's guest is Holly Hughes, the author of Frommer's 500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up and co-author of Frommer's 500 Extraordinary Islands. She lives with her husband and three teenage kids in New York City, a......
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December 24th, 2009 | by Jamie Pearson 3 comments
Here at Travel Savvy Mom we get a lot of kind invitations to guest blog for other travel sites, some of them family focused, some of them less so. We wish we could accept them all.
Here are a few of......
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December 16th, 2009 | by travelsavvymom 1 comment
Packing a travel busy bag is tricky business. Pack too little and you'll be trying to turn napkins into toys. Pack too much, and your backpack will be so heavy that you are sorry you ever left home. Last week......
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December 15th, 2009 | by Jamie Pearson 13 comments
Regular readers of this blog will probably have noticed that I don't write much about essential travel gear. That's because the only thing you really need in order to travel with kids is kids. With one exception, and that's book......
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