February 5, 2012

US Passports for Children

US Passports

Do you need passports for children when traveling to other countries? The answer is an emphatic "yes"!  Even when traveling to Mexico, EVERY U.S. citizen is required to have a valid passport. The only exception is travel to Canada by land or sea. When traveling from Canada by air, you are still required to present a valid passport upon return to the United States. This includes children. But a child is still allowed back into the US from Canada with only a birth certificate as proof of citizenship. How Failure to Provide Valid Passports for Children Can Wreck Your Trip Six weeks ago, we … [Read more...]

Car Games – Part 1: Baby

istock baby car seat

If you read my last post, Share Your Plane Trip with Young Kids Disaster Story, you may have realized that I started BabyTravel.com not because I have all the answers, but because I made a lot of mistakes. But my ineptitude was not limited to air travel. In fairness to myself, I wasn't inept at traveling in the car with a baby, it just caused severe and lasting emotional trauma. So this is part one of a four part series on keeping kids entertained in the car. Life-altering experiences affect different people in different ways. I used to be a rock climber. Once a year, a group of us would … [Read more...]

Share Your Plane Trip with Young Kids Disaster Story

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Sharing travel tales of woe? How is this productive? Rest assured, I am not trying to encourage anyone to wallow in self-pity or scare the pants off some new parent preparing for their first airplane trip with a young child. Mistakes are our best teacher. And why not let someone else make them instead of you? So I'll go first. Here are my top 5 travel screw-ups! … [Read more...]