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Keeping Happy on Family Trips

Traveling with kids can be a challenge: here are tips for keeping smiles on those little faces.
Have the Best Possible Trip
The five "P's" of happy travel with kids. 
What to take to Amuse Kids on a Family Trip
A looong list of suggestions for different age groups.
Travel Games to Print Out
Print out these pages of travel games to play in the car: Connect the Dots, Tic Tac Toe, Animals A to Z, Rhyming Game, simple word games to play out loud, and The License Plate Game.
Be Here Now
A New Year's Resolution, for family travelers: when you're on vacation with your family, try to actually be there (not in cyberspace, or working the Blackberry...)
Feeding Kids on Trips
Wherever you roam, it's a fact of life that, at least three times a day, you'll have to feed little mouths somehow. Here's advice.
Temper Tantrums
Travel can be hard on little kids: here are tips about avoiding-- and dealing with-- tantrums.
Travel With Difficult Kids
Some kids are, by temperament, harder to travel with than others are; here's advice.
Family Trip Tips: Visiting Theme Parks
Visits to Walt Disney World deserve a special mention as it's such a popular spot and -- with four major theme parks -- it's also costly and complex. Full days at the parks can often overwhelm small kids. See tips to help you have the best possible time.

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