Archive for the 'Family Product and Service Ideas' Category

Great travel service for traveling families – Answer their survey

February 2nd, 2009

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 museums, but rather, [...]

Champions du CP et du CE1: birth of the instructional and fun magazine in France in 2008

November 25th, 2008

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 children’s [...]

Buying a house in France: not easy!

June 3rd, 2008

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 its network’s [...]

Kids’ school lunches: French-style lunch bag ideas

November 23rd, 2007

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 [...]

Search engine for Kids. Where is it? Common Sense Media is here in the meantime

February 1st, 2007

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 [...]

Play Centers for Saturday Shopping

November 25th, 2006

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 men [...]