Planning Your Family Staycation: Fun Ideas for Your At-Home Summer Vacation

Planning Your Family Staycation: Fun Ideas for Your At-Home Summer Vacation Review

Does your family enjoy a fun and exciting summer vacation but the budget is tight? Are you tired of going away on a week-long trip only to come home needing a vacation from your vacation? Does the thought of crowds at the airport or gas prices make you want to just stay home? Well, you can stay at home and still have a great vacation by having a family staycation!

Planning Your Family Staycation is full of ideas for turning your home into a place you'll want to vacation in, suggestions for activities that your kids will love and tons of tips that will make your family want to staycation again and again.

About the Author: Denise D. Witmer is a recognized writer of parenting and family books and websites including her book, The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising a Successful Child and creating About.com’s Parenting Teens site and publishing its articles and resources since 1997. Her site and advice has been featured in US News and World Report, Better Homes and Garden’s Raising Teens Magazine and USA Today online.

Ms. Witmer has been a ‘professional parent’ at a Childrens' Home in Pennsylvania from 1988 to 2006. Throughout that time, she has taken many group and family vacations and successfully put together countless staycation activities and day trips. She was very active in child and teen development and helped create their independent living programs. She is trained in PET (Parent Effectiveness Training), STEP (Support and Training for Exceptional Parents) and is the mother of three children. She also completed graduate courses at Penn State University for child and social psychology.