Dream Big-Win a trip to Aruba from Traveling Mom

Do you let your kids bring their crackberries and iPod’s on vacation? Or do you endure the screams of “it’s not fair” and “you bring yours” and insist on traveling au natural?

I can’t seem to come up with a code of conduct and stick with it. The rules are usually dependent on my mood, how tired I am and how much I want to play on my own iPad.

On the plane electronics can be a lifesaver. There’s nothing that keeps a cranky pre-schooler quiet like a little “Dino Dan” on the iPad with some headphones. Occasionally it even brings them together when they’re playing video games like Scrabble, the peace doesn’t usually last though.

Oh, you’re wondering what this has to do with winning a trip to Aruba? Here’s the scoop, Traveling Mom, Taking the Kids and Family Travel Forum are doing a vacation giveaway. It’s a trip for a family of four, including airfare, to Aruba. You can read all the legalese here.

So here’s how you enter:

Watch this video of Traveling Mom founder Kim Orlando fighting, I mean consulting, with her children about whether or not they are allowed to use electronics on vacation in Aruba.

Mom vs. Electronics in Aruba

Comment with a rule of your own, or a tip for other mom’s trying to manage electronics, on any of the sponsor’s sites

Traveling Mom
Taking the Kids
Family Travel Forum

You can leave one comment each day until February 6, 2012 on each site as an entry. One comment=one entry. Easy peazy.

Though it doesn’t count as an entry in to the contest, I’d love to hear what your rules for traveling and texting are.

Good luck, and may the odds be ever in your favor.