Walking like a pro
The big news from our world over the last few weeks is that Powerwoman and I now are the proud parents of three fully ambulatory human beings.
Entries by Matt Villano
New Plum video series about family travel
Over the years I’ve made no secret of my love for Plum Organics. My kids—all three of them, if you can believe it—are addicted to the puffs, and Baby G guzzles at least one (if not two) pouches every day.
The ice-skating debut
They were so excited to go ice-skating, I wasn’t about to stand in the way. And so, on our first full day of our annual trip to Tahoe this weekend, I waltzed L and R into the skate rental shop at the Village at Northstar and got us our skates.
A new alternative to schlepping gear on family trips
Ask any family traveler to describe the most annoying part of traveling with kids and he or she will tell you quickly: schlepping the gear.
Yosemite through the words of my 7-year-old
Visiting Yosemite National Park has become an annual ritual in this family. We go (usually in spring), we hike, we commune with nature, we take a continuing education class or two, then we come home. We’ve done this sort of thing just about every year for the last six. For almost all of those years, […]
Awesome amenity for kids who lose teeth on the road
Spend enough time traveling with youngsters and it’s bound to happen sooner or later: Your little one loses a tooth (naturally) away from home. Of course if your kids believe in the Tooth Fairy, this occurrence puts a burden on mom and dad—how do you perpetuate the rituals you’ve established around celebrating or commemorating these […]
TFW your kids are obsessed with Embassy Suites
We’ve stayed in some pretty nice hotels in our days of traveling as a family. Four Seasons properties. Ritz-Carltons. Fairmonts.
Three’s a charm for family travel coverage
Our not-so-little-anymore pod got some nice ink this week, with three separate family travel stories in two different outlets.
Holiday family travel tips in local daily
I’m a newspaper guy at heart, so it’s always nice to get some actual ink in an actual newspaper on the subject of family travel.
Recapping a November to remember
Early last month, I published a post introducing you dear readers to my idea of participating in Movember, a social media campaign dubbed The Dadbod Challenge. The campaign aimed to celebrate the male body—especially the dad body—with daily photos (by the illustrious Kim Carroll) of yours truly in various forms of undress. Thirty days later, […]