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  • Making sure Mom gets out to play in the snow
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    Making sure Mom gets out to play in the snow

    ByEileen Ogintz February 19, 2015July 15, 2021

    Come on, moms! Got your snow pants and mittens? Let’s go have some fun in the snow — on the ski slopes. No watching the kids, no trying to keep up with your husband!

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  • San Francisco’s hidden gem — The Presidio
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    San Francisco’s hidden gem — The Presidio

    ByEileen Ogintz February 12, 2015July 9, 2021

    We’re hiking the famous Batteries to Bluffs trail in San Francisco’s Presidio, a national park unlike any other, which takes us up and down steps along the western Pacific shoreline, past historic gun batteries, rewarding us with a spectacular view of the Golden Gate Bridge. Wow!

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  • Two worlds for kids and adults in one resort on St. Lucia
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    Two worlds for kids and adults in one resort on St. Lucia

    ByEileen Ogintz February 11, 2015July 10, 2021

    Coconut Bay Beach Resort & Spa in St. Lucia offers Splash, a wing where the kids club is housed and visitors delight in being young and taking part in family-friendly activities and Harmony, Coconut Bay’s adults-only wing.

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  • Eileen’s Kids Guides featured on ABCNews.com
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    Eileen’s Kids Guides featured on ABCNews.com

    ByEileen Ogintz February 10, 2015July 16, 2021

    Eileen’s series of Kids Guides to great American cities was featured on ABCNews.com.

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  • Marriott Vacation Club Opens the World for Traveling Families
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    Marriott Vacation Club Opens the World for Traveling Families

    ByEileen Ogintz February 10, 2015July 15, 2021

    Maybe you should check out Marriott Vacation Club. Backed by the Marriott name and celebrating its 30th anniversary, it’s a far cry from those old school timeshares

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  • Eileen talks spring break ideas on Rudy Maxa’s World
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    Eileen talks spring break ideas on Rudy Maxa’s World

    ByEileen Ogintz February 9, 2015July 16, 2021

    Eileen talks with Rudy Maxa’s Travel World about ideas for family spring breaks. Listen to podcast.

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  • Teen Ambassadors offer unique perspective on 9/11 Memorial Museum
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    Teen Ambassadors offer unique perspective on 9/11 Memorial Museum

    ByEileen Ogintz February 5, 2015August 12, 2021

    David Rothblatt and Fia Hargil are among the six members of the inaugural class of teen ambassadors trained to work with children who visit the National September 11 Memorial Museum, which opened at the new World Trade Center this past May.

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  • A quirky new hotel in San Francisco makes you feel special
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    A quirky new hotel in San Francisco makes you feel special

    ByEileen Ogintz February 3, 2015July 7, 2021

    Welcome to the Hotel G, San Francisco’s newest boutique hotel with 151 rooms just north of Union Square but miles away from the big-box chain hotels in the neighborhood. Incidentally, there have been hotels in this building since just a few years after the 1906 Earthquake.

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  • At the Presidio in San Francisco, top chef aims at kids menus
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    At the Presidio in San Francisco, top chef aims at kids menus

    ByEileen Ogintz February 3, 2015July 15, 2021

    Award winning San Francisco chef Traci Des Jardins wishes American restaurants would take a page—a menu page—from their counterparts in other parts of the world. “The United States is one of the only places in the world that has special meals for kids,” she said. “We are conditioned to teach kids to eat differently than we do and that is a mistake.”

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  • Off the slopes snowshoe fun at Northstar California
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    Off the slopes snowshoe fun at Northstar California

    ByEileen Ogintz February 2, 2015July 15, 2021

    Rather than ski, I’m going to have some fun in the snow a different way—hiking on snowshoes in the woods, though the lack of snowfall does impede us a bit.

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