School just got out today so on my calendar it’s officially the first day of summer! So what are we going to do?  We’re “chillaxing”, a word my 10-year old coined, and like every summer we’re heading off on a big road trip.  We’re a road trip family.  We have trekked from Connecticut to Arkansas, [...]

An important prelude: Sad but true, American childhood is moving indoors. In fact, according to the National Wildlife Federation, the average boy or girl spends just four to seven minutes outdoors every day. And here’s another astounding fact…By the time most children go to kindergarten, they have spent more than 5,000 hours in front of [...]

Every family has their traditions and it’s those little rituals that create a lifetime worth of inside jokes and ultimately become the thread that binds the family together.   It is the way you “do” what you do that becomes your family tradition.  It doesn’t matter if your family likes to play scrabble, go hiking, eat [...]