The French SNCF train company, a national, state owned company, prides itself in its technology and trains that leave and arrive on time about 85% of the time. However, there’s a not so brilliant aspect to their policy: this concerns access to the trains for those with a handicap: either the actual handicapped, or the [...]
A friend of mine, a French journalist in France , maried to a Spaniard, with two teenage children, is working on developping a unique web based travel guide service for us, traveling families! Finally, she’s proposing to offer, for major cities worldwide: Travel info suited to families IE, not your typical: best restaurants and great [...]
A new breed of magazine for children 5 to 7 has come out in France in 2008. ‘Champions du CP‘ and ‘ Champions du CE1‘, which can be translated as: ‘ First Grade Ace‘ and ‘ Second grade Ace‘ are high quality, 80 page magazines for kids that combine: edutational content typical of high end [...]
As with most things in France, other than buying a baguette and going to the restaurant, buying a house is much more complicated than in North America. FEES: There are fees of course: Homes are not all listed in all real estate agencies. I know of one network, ORPI, that lists its properties through all [...]
When we were living in the US with our children, I was faced with the the task of preparing school lunches for my children ages 2 to 5. As one with some French culture in my background, I say you are what you eat, and eating nutritious, balanced and great tasting lunch boxes is a [...]
Have you given real thought to what your seven year old might stumble upon when peforming an Internet search for the world ‘ girl’, if she was looking for images of little girls to decorate a birthday party invitation? How about famous cartoon caracters that are used to attract them to sites having nothing to [...]
The world truly is not sensitive to families’ needs, where no city or neighbourhood has thought of putting together a service for working parents so they can shop easily on Saturdays while their children play in a center designed to welcome them. True, isn’t it strange this isn’t here yet? Could it be too many [...]
