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The Tao of Family Vacations
I can’t imagine a better place to spend my 43rd birthday than Kauai.
I warned my daughter and husband that this was to be a quiet, contemplative trip full of reading, meditation and healthy eating. Mostly because I had been sick with a sinus infection for way too long — and because I had just re-read “Eat Pray Love” and “A New Earth.” I wanted that kind of mind-altering transcendence but I was going to do it on a family vacation right next to the kiddy pool.
Soon after arriving at a Kauai condo, I was unlucky enough to trip and drop an unused compact, shattering the mirror. Thankfully, my daughter Savannah was out at the pool with her Dad and not at my side where she customarily resides. If it weren’t for my unfortunate bout of gastro-intestinal rebellion after the myriad of homeopathic remedies I had been imbibing, she could very well have been hit with a shard of glass.
Lucky. Continue… »
By Robyn MurphyFlying with Children is the Opposite of Silence
Taking young children on an airplane compares to somewhere between having your fingernails ripped out one by one and having them ripped out all at once.
You should probably get exponential bonus miles for flying anywhere in the two rows surrounding young children. Or, at least free drinks. It is only just.
Before I had kids, I will refer to this henceforth as the “Age of Innocence,” I would scowl at the surrounding kids, harrumph at the parents and sometimes, like in the case of the seat-kicking kid all the way to Washington D.C., suggest that the parent do something.
By Jennifer O'ShaughnessyVacationing with Adult Children; Relishing Time Together
I am poised on the edge of my seat as I prepare for our family vacation at Stinson Beach.
About five years ago this same vacation destination took place with myself, my darling husband, David, my lovely daughter, Alicia, and my handsome son, Dante: each of us thriving and enjoying one another’s company.
At the time, my daughter, then twenty-one, had just returned from a trip to Australia and she spent many beach hours compiling a beautiful photo album. My son was sixteen and his time was taken up daily with many of his Bolinas girlfriends visiting him in casual beach attire.
Trying to bring back the laid-back, relaxed atmosphere we attained then somehow has a different edge at this stage in our lives.
Now attempting to rekindle that tranquil beach vibe feels like a challenge to our full, adult lives and calendars. Continue… »
By Cynthia Rovero
