Tips Always Welcome

I found a great piece of traveling-with-kids advice that I need to file away somewhere. Here is as good a place as any.

The element of surprise never fails. One of my wife's most genius travel strategies is to produce some kind of surprise for the kid on the plane: sometimes it's a new book, a new box of crayons and some stickers. Once it was a little thing of modeling clay [which ended up leaving greasy dye streaks on the tray table. Oops.] This trip, it was some kind of dipping stick snack, somewhere between a Lik-m-Aid and a Pocky. When the kid got a little antsy, out it came to change the mood.

This is from a blog called "Daddy Types." Interesting blog there that I am definitely bookmarking.