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'Babies belong in the hold'
Mouthy Top Gear presenter winds up travelling mothers with advice for airline.
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Kids flying alone
It is great to give children independence - they learn from it and become more confident. I think it was more me that was a shambles.
Sedating kids on flights
Shona Sibary, who admitted medicating her children to get them to sleep on long flights has sparked a furious debate.
Toddler Tramping
Good news: for a single day last week, when we needed it most, Baxter rediscovered the ability to walk!
Hotel for kids
Legoland's designers got one thing enormously right that will make it a screaming success: kid-centricity.
Mexico with the kids
KidZania is an internationally acclaimed, and truly unique, children’s theme park that makes life a little easier for parents.
Three in the bed
I realised, as Baxter and I called goodnight to Tom and snuggled under the covers together, that something was terribly wrong.
Boy or girl
Boy or girl? Baxter's blonde locks have Vietnam residents guessing.
Gypsies come to town
Darren, Sharyn and their children have been travelling with the Gypsy Fair for 15 years.
Dairy King
As much as we like the sights and sounds and the other lures of new places, we love the food most of all.
An OE for four
Our OE for three has become an OE for four. We've been joined by Baxter's imaginary friend Pata.
Parents behaving badly
We had three hours to kill in Phuket before we could check in for our flight. For some reason happy hour seemed a good idea.
iPad travels
In a predictable, but hardly gratifying development, one of our most indispensable travel aids is turning out to be an iPad.
With kids in California
Beyond the glitz and glamour of the Hollywood celebrity scene, a quiet, family-friendly LA awaits.
Explaining death
In Asia, away from plastic covered chicken breasts, we are really faced with the reality of an animal's place in the human world.
Stuck on the shoulders
Baxter first walked at 11 months. Yet now he's three-and-a-half - and we're roaming around Asia - he's lost the ability entirely.
The spoilt traveller
After being pampered in Sri Lanka, three-year-old Baxter is struggling to adjust to not being the centre of the universe in Thailand.
Toy stories
North America's first ever Legoland hotel has opened in Carlsbad, California.
Goodbye downtime
When you're travelling with a young child, as we have been for the past month, there's no down time.
The darndest things
As Bill Cosby discovered a while ago, all kids say some pretty hilarious stuff.
The runaway
We've only just got started with our travels, but it's already taken place: that blood-stopping moment where you don't know what's happened to your three-year-old.
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