Eileen Ogintz: Taking the Kids

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Taking the Kids

Whether it's a trip to Grandma's or the coolest ski slopes, Eileen Ogintz helps parents make the most of traveling with children. She offers tips on where to vacation, how to keep the kids happy when you're there and how to get the most bang for your buck.

Taking the Kids Samples

Taking the Kids -- what you need to know about cruise safety

Here's a vacation that will please the kids -- even the teens and tweens -- as much as you and grandma and grandpa. Let's talk cruising.

Taking the Kids -- and making time for romance

Where's the music? We succumbed to the sales pitch for the "romantic," albeit pricey gondola ride early one evening on Venice's famed canals, but our gondolier, decked out in the traditional striped shirt, didn't sing, much less talk to us.

Taking the Kids -- on an un-cruise cruise

For once, we're masters of our own destiny -- in paradise, no less. Really. Now if we can just survive the week of togetherness!

Taking the Kids -- to Hong Kong

All I'm supposed to do is "take a step forward and look at the sky." But it's not as easy as it sounds. It is 8 a.m. in Hong Kong and I'm jet-lagged. I can't believe I'm here.

Taking the Kids -- and learning African-American history in Boston

Sure we've all heard of Paul Revere and John Hancock, but what about Crispus Attucks?

Taking the Kids -- and learning a snow sport

There's nothing like a New Year's resolution you can actually keep. Just ask Chicago mom Andrea Guthmann, who resolved to embrace new challenges.

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