THE FATHER LIFE

Do you remember summer vacation?  I’m not talking about the trip you took with the family last year.  I’m talking about that break from school you could look forward to every year from Kindergarten though high school.  Long days, the occasional family trip, and nearly absolute freedom.  It was incredible, right?  Give anything to have [...]

The cold, dull, and busy winter in some parts of the country has left many parents and kids dreaming of a get-away. But with finances and budgets tight, many can’t even imagine saving enough for a family vacation. Experts say there are ways to make this dream come true, and the first step is to [...]

Remembering Chevy Chase in those summer vacation movies reminds me of the fact that most so-called “family vacations” are, at best, vacations for the kids and torture for the parents. I’m generalizing, of course, but most generalizations and clichés have a strong basis in truth. I stand by the proposition that [...]

We all know the importance of this time of year. For those with children, it is the time just before school starts in September when there is still room for one last summer hurrah: the road trip. Families and friends all around the country pack up their minivans, sedans, or–if they are unlucky–Mini Coopers with [...]

I just got back from two nights and three days in Reno with my two daughters. My wife stayed back and ‘let us have all the fun’. I’ve spent many a wonderful day and evening alone with my girls, ages 6 and 4, however this did give me cause for trepidation. I figured I could [...]

Here’s a list of reasons I plan on taking my seventeen-month-old daughter on vacation to the Spanish Mediterranean this summer.
Not commercialized – Beach towns, by definition, are commercialized. But in comparison, I found the beaches near Castellón de la Plana, a mid-sized city on the Spanish Mediterranean where I lived for one year, not as [...]