It is an axiom of family travel that that which works at home does not always work on the road. No one wants to buy an extra stroller just for travel. But, let's face it, no one wants lug the fully featured model (or hand it over to the baggage handlers) either. Trust us on this.

Written by travelsavvymom

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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A comprehensive guide to the best and most comfortable travel pillows for everyone. While no travel pillow is perfect, some are better than others.

Written by Jamie Pearson

The OBI carrier is a lifesaver when traveling by air in that you can simply toss this into your carry on and go rather than paying extra to check a traditional back carrier.

Written by Julie Breitigan

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?

Written by Kayt Sukel

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......

Written by Jamie Pearson

Family travel with the Kindle I have a confession to make:  I love books.  Seriously.  I *love* books.  If I have a single vice outside travel, it's books.  I read about a new novel or non-fiction book on Salon.com or NPR......

Written by Kayt Sukel

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 lights. Book lights mean separate bed times even in the tiniest of hotel rooms. I would never leave so much as my driveway without one.

Written by Jamie Pearson

I have a confession to make. And I feel a little weird talking about it on a family travel blog but I'll just go ahead anyway: I have big boobs.

Written by Kayt Sukel

It's that time of year, and parents everywhere are scrambling to entertain kids in backseats and airports across the country. Even if you're staying put this holiday season, there are only so many batches of cookies you can bake to keep your kids occupied on that long winter break.

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