Tips Archives - 2 Dads with Baggage

Surviving Cheerleading Competitions: A Parents’ Guide

So your daughter has joined a competitive cheerleading team, huh? She’s super duper hyper fantasmagorically excited and into it, and you may be feeling perhaps less so. Not that you are being unsupportive of your daughter, but you probably didn’t plan on becoming a cast member on Dance Moms (or in our case, Dance Dads). […]

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Prepping Our Kids for Babysitting with CPR Training

Our girls are of the age where they can offer babysitting services to our friends and neighbors with little kids, but we’re not about to send them out there without the proper training. In order for us (and other parents) to feel confident in their abilities to act in an emergency, we all signed up […]

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Highway to Hell

We took a road trip up the California coast, and the kids WERE. NOT. HAVING. IT. It seems wifi has become the single most important component in whether a vacation will be happy (or not). As we curved our way up Highway 1 into the wilds of Big Sur and beyond, the craggy coastline gave way […]

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Flying From Tijuana Airport Is Easy

When we first started talking about a family vacation in Mexico, flying from the Tijuana Airport seemed like a great option – and bonus points because it was easy and cheap! Now before I go on, please purge from your list of negative associated with Tijuana – it is completely safe and very US-friendly. If […]

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Quick Antidote for Queasy Travel Stomach

Whether you feel a little motion sick from a rocky boat ride, or perhaps ate something that didn’t agree with you, here’s a quick antidote for queasy travel stomach that worked for me on our recent visit in Mexico: Plain seltzer water Juice of two fresh limes Cold ice made from bottled water Salted rim […]

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