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Traveling with kids: How to keep it fun and still have time to relax

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Traveling with kids: How to keep it fun and still have time to relax

How do you ensure that your kids are having fun on your family trip and still get a few relaxing moments for you? Is that even possible? From the moment you start traveling with your kids, they are your main priority. You choose the location, the activities, the place to stay only based on what is best for them, thinking that if they are not fully satisfied and comfortable, you will suffer too. Still, you – the parents – need your own moments of relaxation. So how do you balance kids’ fun with few moments for yourself? One idea would...

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Turn your kids from "backseat electronic-device users" to your family tour guides

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Turn your kids from "backseat electronic-device users" to your family tour guides

Traveling with kids is like a roller coaster ride. It’s exciting, thrilling, and yet scary. Not only do you worry about packing their stuff, you also have to think about how kids are going to deal with the whole experience of travel. No matter how well behaved, no kid will be the perfect angel... especially when cooped up in a car, train, or plane. Are they going to like the place? Will they get enough sleep? Will they get bored? Will they leave their electronic devices and focus on the new destination and family adventure? What about culture-shock? Will they...

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Homeschooling While Traveling the World (Plus Tips for Parents!)

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Homeschooling While Traveling the World (Plus Tips for Parents!)

Not all classrooms have four walls. More and more families are choosing to homeschool their children. According to the report released by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the number of homeschool students has increased by 300,000 since 2007. There are many reasons why many families prefer homeschooling over traditional education, from trying to do away from the negative environment of public schools, to protecting their kids from bullying, aiming for a higher quality education, and more. But there’s one even more interesting reason – to be able to travel the world. Home education is...

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Four Reasons to Visit London with Kids

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The city of the Big Ben is home to families, and yours is welcome anytime you wish. For a happening city like London, it’s the hardest thing to pick and choose what goes into our list of recommendations and what doesn’t. But here go, four reasons to visit London with kids:  INDOOR AND OUTDOOR THEMED […]

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Interview with Where’s Sharon?

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Where’s Sharon? is a fun and friendly site that is bursting with heaps of useful information to help you with your family adventures.  Sharon has one main aim – to inspire you to travel!  She shows how travelling with kids needn’t be, contrary to popular belief, so difficult and how vacationing with children can, indeed, […]

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