Flying with your family can be a daunting but necessary evil to if you want to spend the holidays with your family. Road trips are also pretty draining. With the holidays fast approaching, we pulled 5 tips we think are most essential for making Thanksgiving and Christmas travel easier, maybe …

. Whether it’s summer vacation or the holiday season on the horizon, it’s certain that far-away relatives will start clamoring for you to hop on a plane and fly home for a visit with your little one—again. They seem oblivious to the headaches of holiday travel or can’t believe you would …

In the fall Tiny Traveler and I were flying coast-to-coast on Jet Blue. Of course, given the current stranglehold airlines are putting on seats that don’t cost extra, it seemed likely my daughter and I would be sitting in two middle seats, one in front of the other, rather than next to each other. (I …

I admit I chuckled a little when the editor at FamiliesGo! asked me to write about my most ambitious family vacation. As a father of six, pretty much every trip we take qualifies as ambitious. The last time we all traveled together we took 17 (!) pieces of luggage to …

Flying these days can be tedious under the best circumstances. When you’re traveling with kids and you’re always being steered to the slowest security line, always struggling to find room for your numerous backpacks and shoes in a cramped row of seats and always winding up sticky by the end …