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Practical Paths

Practical Paths: A single-parent’s guide to navigating travel with a tween and a teen, featuring honest planning tools and system-based travel strategies.

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Cruising with a Tween and a Teen: What Actually Changes

Somewhere on Deck 15 of Star of the Seas, my 11-year-old was counting her water-slide rides — she was on eight — while my 15-year-old had disappeared to El Loco for burritos with friends he had made. That was the moment I understood the cruise I'd planned was not the cruise we were taking. The ship was the same. The itinerary was the same. But somewhere between the last cruise and this one, one kid had become a tween who wanted to be everywhere at once, and the other had become a teenager who...