Family Travel Tips

It can be daunting to travel to places where the citizens speak a foreign language.  For countries where English is not the native tongue but it is prevalent, it can also be tempting to not bother with learning any.   The bottom line: it is always polite to learn at least a few basics before you go anywhere. 

Cheerios are THE most popular cereal in my house. Being the parent of a two-year-old boy with food allergies, we take them everywhere. We welcome seeing them when we travel, and have never really worried about them before, until now. General Mills, the parent company behind Cheerios has introduced a new flavor, peanut butter.

I have the solution to the Alec Baldwin Words With Friends controversy with American Airlines: It could easily be resolved if the airline invested in several thousand Scruble Cubes.  You might remember Baldwin was kicked off a flight in early December after he wouldn’t turn off his phone at the gate.  Baldwin said he was playing Words With Friends, the Scrabble game available on iPhones and other devices. 

If it seems as though everyone and their mother is raving about Pinterest these days, it’s probably because they are. Though the latest social media obsession has been around since March 2010, it is only been in recent months that it has become the “it” social media site. According to the metrics media firm ComScore, the site grew from less than half a million users in May 2011, to almost 5 million in November and by December it had become one of the Web’s Top 10 social networks