For better or for worse, your holiday plans are made. The bags are mostly packed, the presents mostly bought and wrapped (unless you’re my husband, who probably hasn’t started his shopping yet), the itinerary for driving, flying or just staying home is set. After the holiday travel is over, it’s …

Travel is never far from my mind. Even when it comes to birthday and holiday presents I’m always on the hunt for gifts that will make our next flight or drive a little easier. Making the rounds at some recent toy fairs I had one eye on the upcoming holiday …

Keeping hungry kids sated gets a little easier as they get bigger—and new products come out all the time to help parents traveling with little ones. Here are some products and ideas that helped me (or would have helped me) a lot when I was traveling with a small one. …

Want to Buy an item you read about? Click the product links!  Being cooped up on a plane is hard for all of us, but flying is especially hard for toddlers and preschoolers, who have bundles of energy and short attention spans. Be prepared for most activities to last 15-to-30 minutes. Take advantage of …

Nothing keeps my kid occupied like good craft kits. Get her involved in designing, cutting, pasting, painting and glittering and an hour or two can roll by. So I love finding crafts she can do in the car, on the plane, at the vacation house on a rainy day or …

There’s no such thing as traveling light when you travel with kids. So we value anything that allows us to carry less, carry smaller, carry lighter or that keeps the kids comfortable longer. Here are 10 products (and 1 service) that get get high marks for cleverness in our book. …

Want to Buy an item you read about? Click the product links!  Why We Need Travel Toys When you’re flying or driving with little kids, entertainment to happen in 20-minute increments. Bigger kids can get engrossed for longer periods But still, anything that gives you longer stretches of time between rounds of “Are we …

Want to Buy an item you read about? Click the product links!  Few things absorb a child’s total attention like a good puzzle. So you’d like to bring them with you in the car or on the plane. But all those pieces–egad! Well, here is a roundup of puzzles that travel well. Some are …

Want to Buy an item you read about? Click the product links!  Last week, our family hit the road for a 10-hour round trip drive to Lake Placid, NY, up in the northern Adirondacks. We are one of those crazy families that tries to avoid handing our child an electronic screen the second the …

Want to Buy an item you read about? Click the product links!  It’s that season where we start thinking about vacation plans for the year. While you think about where to go, I’m also thinking about what to bring. And the International Toy Fair this week has given me lots of ideas. I noticed …

Want to Buy an item you read about? Click the product links!  Summer travel season is on the horizon. So we headed to the TTPM showcase to track down the hot summer toys that will help you get from point A to point B this summer. Here’s what we found:

Like these gadgets? Read about 12 others! Updated July 2017 Technology can make your life easier when you travel, or it can just be more stuff to carry and keep track of. And the last thing you need when traveling with kids is more stuff to carry and keep track of. …

Want to Buy an item you read about? Click the product links!  The annual Toy Fair in New York City is probably the biggest collection of toys and games to assemble under one roof. We love to go and prowl the rows of stalls stacked with products for babies, kids and tweens—some innovative, some …

By Eileen Gunn I was in Ikea the other day and was excited to see these stacking cups make their return. They’d disappeared for a while, at least from our Brooklyn outlet. And they were sorely missed. They cost $2.95 or so. After clinging to our set for 3 or …

One of the most fun parts of editing FamiliesGo! is getting to go to the annual Toy Fair in NYC to search for clever travel toys, games and crafts. I always find something that makes me say, “That is so cool!” and wish I were a kid again.  Here are …