Traveling with family is always an adventure. From nearby day trips to month long excursions, Sara Clemence offers tips and ideas for navigating travel with children.

Sara is the founder of the family travel community, The Expedition, and former travel editor at The Wall Street Journal and Travel + Leisure. She also freelances, writing mostly about travel—but really about anything that lets her indulge her curiosity about the world. You can also check out her book Away & Aware: A Field Guide to Mindful Travel.

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In this episode, we chatted with Sarah Kimmel from Family Tech. She is a Certified IT manager, family tech expert, and digital parenting coach, who spends her days helping families understand and manage the technology in their home.

Like thousands of other families across the country, we have begun remote learning to start the 2020 school year. It's been an up and down process as we manage the technology our son is using.

We pepper Sarah with a ton of questions ranging from:

• What computer should we use? Mac or PC? Is Google Chromebook good enough?
• What parental controls can we use on each platform?
• Is software, hardware, or a mix of both, the best way to implement parental controls?
• How do mobile phones work into this mix?
• What remote learning resources should we check out?

Sarah and her family are avid gamers, so we get real about the safety of Roblox and why the Nintendo Switch is the best platform for kids.

We also touch on TikTok and why she loves it.

You can also listen to Sarah on her own podcast called, Family Tech Talk.

You can connect with Sarah on her website and social media below.

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We're excited to announce our new video series, Today I Made, where we document the process of children making a variety of things from scrambled eggs to spray paint murals and wooden clocks.

Follow along with the step-by-step tutorials geared toward children ages 6 to 12, and hone your skills in woodworking, cooking, art, wellness while creating something you’re truly proud of.

This approachable and practical video series was born during the Covid-19 Shelter in Place orders, when Built by Kids founders, Timothy and Laura Dahl, were eager to find ways to keep their 8-year-old son busy and inspired with fun projects he could do, “all by himself”, allowing them the space to work from home uninterrupted.

Demonstrating projects that typically take two hours to complete, the videos run around 5 minutes long and are vividly edited to effortlessly guide young Makers through each step of the process while offering Pro Tips, to help them perfect specific techniques. It is recommended that you pause the video after each step and replay as needed.

Each video comes with downloadable plans or a recipe and written instructions that can be printed, and a materials list with items most homes will likely already have on hand, to make the project preparation as easy as possible for parents and care-givers.

“It is our hope that these videos will empower kids with the confidence to take on fun and challenging projects, with minimal involvement from their parents. We want to instill enthusiasm for the process and an innovative spirit encouraging them to use their heads and their hands and make something, every day.” Laura Dahl, Founder of Built by Kids

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