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The Best of Summer Travels with Baby Tips

Once upon a summer family road trip: Making our way through the Chandelier “drive-thru” tree at Leggett, California.

Happy summer! I hope you have some great adventures with your little ones lined up in the weeks ahead, not to mention a little down time for you waiting in the wings.

Before you go: Tips for camping with a baby, toddler, or preschooler

This post is going above and beyond your usual roundup of “Top 10 Tips” to give you links to tips on top of tips that I’ve shared on camping with a baby, camping with a toddler, and camping with preschoolers as well. And in case these aren’t enough…remember there’s much more on camping with kids under 5 in Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide…

Tips to help before you go camping with a baby, toddler, or preschooler:

Sure, pitching the tent in a backyard overnight is not a bad way to reintrod...

Save an extra $500 on a family-friendly chateau in France–this summer!

Villa Le Priotlet, a family-friendly chateau in France’s Aquitaine region.

A huge thanks to my sponsor, Oliver’s Travels, which is extending this special offer to Travels with Baby readers!

Chateau Le Brun in the Loire Valley

Oliver’s Travels has presented five fabulous family-friendly chateaux in France, which still have some remaining dates available this summer, and will apply a generous discount to my readers who take advantage of this offer while availability lasts. These beautiful prop...

Save $500 on a family-friendly chateau in France–this summer!

Villa Le Priotlet, a family-friendly chateau in France’s Aquitaine region.

A huge thanks to my sponsor, Oliver’s Travels, which is extending this special offer to Travels with Baby readers!

Chateau Le Brun in the Loire Valley

Oliver’s Travels has presented five fabulous family-friendly chateaux in France, which still have some remaining dates available this summer, and will apply a generous discount to my readers who take advantage of this offer while availability lasts. These beautiful prop...

Castles fit for a Kid: Three unforgettable family-friendly villas in Europe

Live like a king in Languedoc in this family-friendly chateau that’s ideal for big family getaways and family reunions.

Heads up to those of you entertaining thoughts of renting family-friendly villas in Europe!

I recently discovered Oliver’s Travels, a company that makes it very easy to find family-friendly villas that are a good fit based on your children’s ages and stages—baby and toddler, grade school-age kids, or tweens and teens. You might also appreciate that every Oliver’s Travels pr...

Ask Shelly: Advice on travel beds for twins?

Have you ever heard me say that one of the best parts of my job is hearing from real parents from all over the globe? It is! I love hearing what my readers are up to–and helping where I can. I believe this is my first letter from Kodiak, and from a Coast Guard mom (how cool is that?!).

Hello Ma’am,

I’m currently stationed in Kodiak, Alaska with the Coast Guard and will be trying to fly home to Michigan with my husband and now 15 month old twins. By the time we go home for Christmas, they will...

Flying with Infants: Checklist for Getting an Airplane Bassinet

And perhaps the #1 reason you want an airplane bassinet for your infant…you’ll have a place to put her while you eat dinner!

If you have an overseas flight with an infant in your future, chances are you’re hoping to take advantage of the airplane bassinets available on some long-haul flights. If so, a few quick words of advice: “Don’t assume anything.”

Truth is, it’s a lot easier to not score an airplane bassinet for your flight than it is to actually get one. But by following this checklist...

Need to Know: Flying Gulf Air with a Baby or Toddler

Flying Gulf Air with a baby or toddler? Say hello to your new Sky Nanny…

Are you considering flying Gulf Air with a baby or toddler? Lucky you!

Most of the airlines featured in this Need-to-Know Airlines series so far are here for very specific reasons–the kind of reasons that might be deal-breakers for the family flying with babies or toddlers. In the case of Gulf Air, however, the reasons are more likely to be deal makers.

Say hello to your new “Sky Nanny.”

On select flights, families flyin...

Pack This! Insect repellent clothing for babies and toddlers

Insect repellent clothing for babies and toddlers: No odors, no DEET, no worries.

Last week in southwest Florida, when I decided to pull over in my rental car and take a quick photo of a glorious purple sunset over a saltwater marsh, I was quickly–and memorably!–introduced to the burning agony known locally as “the attack of the sand flies.”

When I jumped back into the air conditioned car, the burning biting continued from beneath my T-shirt on up to my scalp. I wasn’t sure how I’d be able to...

“Travels with Baby” is an IndieFab finalist in TWO categories!

Thank you, ForeWord Reviews!!!

Pardon the all caps and exclamation point, but in the world of Independent Publishing, this is a big honor—and in this case it’s a big honor times two!

When ForeWord Reviews recently named its Finalist picks for its annual IndieFab Book of the Year Awards, Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Travel with Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler was named a 2014 Finalist in both the Travel and Family & Relationship categories (follow the links to see the...