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Category Archives: Family Travel
Happy to Announce My New Book!
As many of you are aware, I’ve been working on a book project for the last few years based on this blog and much additional research. For those of you who’ve offered feedback and suggestions to my blog posts … Continue reading
Alaska Impressions
“Mama, I’m going to walk in front with the ranger! I want to hear her tell which berries I can eat. Oh, and did you see how big the bald eagle’s nest was?! I spotted the baby birds … Continue reading
Subways, Buses, and Backpacks: Teaching Kids Frugal Travel Skills
This is a guest post I just wrote for the Center for a New American Dream website. I bumped into my friend Sarah the other day. As we stood in the hot, dry Colorado air I asked about her summer. … Continue reading
Mountain Goats and Spiderman: Using the Tools of the Mind Program
Over Spring Break our family visited two National Parks in Utah, Arches and Canyonlands. We stayed in the small town of Moab, where an interesting mix of ex-uranium miners and twenty-something mountain bike enthusiasts live tucked in between towering red … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family Travel
Tagged Arches National Park, Ashley Merryman, Deborah Leong, Elena Bodrova, executive brain function in kids, funding national parks, imaginative play, kids hiking, kindergarten curriculum, Nurture Shock, petroglyphs, Po Bronson, preschool curriculum, self-control curriculum, tools of the mind
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Starfish One By One: An Amazing Guatemalan Non-Profit
Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, has been very inspirational reading for me. It demonstrates the creativity people use to make ends meet when given a leg up via a small business loan or scholarship. Prior to … Continue reading
Spanish Language Immersion in Guatemala
(Names of our Guatemalan friends have been changed.) As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, our family has traveled to Central America for Spanish language immersion two summers in a row. Initially we went to Costa Rica which was a fitting … Continue reading
Spanish Immersion in Costa Rica: Unexpected Highpoints for My Kids
If you read last week’s post about our family’s experience learning Spanish in Costa Rica for a month, you no doubt got the impression that it was a fairly trying adventure, but an adventure nonetheless! My summary at the time … Continue reading
Learning Spanish as a Family in Costa Rica
Two summers ago our family traveled to central Costa Rica for a month to live with a local family and learn Spanish at a language school. Our kids were 11, 9 and 6 at the time. I’d conceived of the … Continue reading
Family Train Trip
When we stepped up onto the California Zephyr in Denver one hot July evening, my family had no idea what to expect. I’d booked the trip on the strength of fond childhood memories of chugging up the Northeast Corridor in … Continue reading
Sweet Spots: Helping Your Kids Find ENOUGH in Their Lives.