There is a window, somewhere between the end of car seat requirements and the beginning of teenage indifference, where traveling with your kid is genuinely great. Not just manageable. Not just fine. Actually great. If you have a child between eight and twelve right now, you are in that window. Middle graders are old enough […]
It’s November! Changing leaves, Starbucks red cups, and with every passing day a step closer to the holidays, which for parents with young children brings up one terrifying image—spending hours on a plane or in the car with screaming, unhappy children on the way to visit family. But traveling with children doesn’t have to be […]
One of the difficulties that comes with being a writer is that your job is never finished. You don’t get to come home at the end of the day and cut off thinking about your job completely, and you don’t get to take a two-week paid vacation; as writers, our thoughts are always consumed by […]