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An amazing journey to see the sea turtles lay their eggs
ByEileen Ogintz August 6, 2008July 6, 2021

Tortuguero is all about the turtles. The Caribbean Conservation Corporation (www.ccturtle.org) is the oldest sea turtle conservation anywhere and the program here — more than 30 years old — has documented an over 400 per cent increase in green turtle nesting here. For a $25 donation to the Conservation Corporation, I adopt a turtle tag # 105549.

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Mixing two cultures at a local school
ByEileen Ogintz August 5, 2008July 14, 2021

We parents of course notice what their schools are missing-computers, air conditioning, enough room for the children to go to school full days. Sarah Kate Garrett, at nine the youngest in our group, immediately makes friends with nine-year-old Maria.

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Into the Costa Rican rainforests
ByEileen Ogintz August 4, 2008July 14, 2021

No bored seen-that done-that teens in this crowd. At breakfast, we’ve met the rest of our group from Thomson Family Adventures. We are four families with eight girls aged eight to 16. There are two other moms traveling solo with kids and a family with three girls from Los Altos, CA. The dad, Jeff Purnell jokes that he’s used to being outnumbered by women.

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TO VERMONT — IN SUMMER
ByEileen Ogintz August 3, 2008July 14, 2021

The steep climb up the slick rocks — 770 vertical feet — doesn’t phase them, nor scrambling without footholds or squeezing between two boulders. “Hard but fun,” a trio of 9-year-old boys declare, as they race ahead. “Definitely worth it,” their older sisters add, as they trail close behind them.

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A trip to Costa Rica with two teenagers
ByEileen Ogintz August 3, 2008July 14, 2021

JFK was typically a crowded mess at Delta. No one was quite sure which line was which — baggage drop, check in, security? For some reason, the automated kiosk wouldn’t let us check in so we got on a long line only to discover that was the line for the folks who had already checked in but needed to drop their bags

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When they have autism
ByEileen Ogintz July 27, 2008July 5, 2021

Traveling with kids, especially young ones, we all know is never easy. They don’t want to let go of their “lovey” to put it on the security belt at an airport. They get impatient in long lines, hate to sit still on airplanes and may cry and spill their drinks. And the passengers, restaurant patrons or hotel guests in the vicinity may not be sympathetic to the beleaguered parent’s plight.

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Pay for your luggage, fight for the overhead bin… what next?
ByEileen Ogintz July 24, 2008June 28, 2023

I hate being nickeled and dimed when I travel. That’s why I hate resort fees for services I probably don’t use, fees for accessing the internet at hotels and now, fees to check even one bag on an airplane.

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Having a destination wedding when kids are part of the equation
ByEileen Ogintz July 20, 2008July 14, 2021

Not only are destination weddings — from Orlando (Disney does 1,500 a year) to the Caribbean to Hawaii to cruise ships — more popular, they account for 16 percent of weddings every year, up 400 percent in the last decade — but kids increasingly are part of the equation says Milli Martini Bratten, longtime editor-in-chief of Brides Magazine.

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Vacations never go as planned
ByEileen Ogintz July 17, 2008July 10, 2021

It’s over 100 degrees but the kids playing in and around the pool at Barton Creek Resort don’t seem to care. Ten-year-old Ryan Libby is slurping a frozen drink and eating chicken fingers poolside.

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Fun in the Texas Lost Pines Country
ByEileen Ogintz July 16, 2008October 17, 2023

DAY TWO — It’s barely 9 a.m. and kids are in full vacation mode, playing water basketball, floating in the lazy river, zipping down the…

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