Avoiding Jet Lag

Keywords: flying, jet lag, Travel

By Stacy DeBroff

• Begin adjusting your child to the new time zone before you leave for vacation, changing his bedtime by fifteen minutes every day.

• Have everyone in your family drink plenty of liquids on the plane.

• Keep the itinerary for your first day easy.

• Try to arrive at your destination in the early evening. Put your child to bed according to the new time zone, regardless of what the time is at home.

Stacy, heralded as a “parenting guru” by the Wall Street Journal, authored four best-selling parenting books (Simon & Schuster) and launched Mom Central, Inc. (www.MomCentral.com), a company devoted to providing savvy advice to simplify and enrich the lives of busy Moms and their families. Stacy appears as a regular parenting expert on national TV show, including NBC’s Today Show, CNN, The View, Tyra Banks Show, CBS’ Early Show, The Daily Buzz, Mike And Juliet, Fox & Friends, and the Rachael Ray Show. Stacy also serves as a corporate spokesperson, trendspotting for the media on behalf of over 30 national brands.

In the 1990’s, Stacy founded and ran as an attorney the Public Interest Office at Harvard Law School. Stacy lives with her husband, Ron, and happily engages in imperfect parenting of their two teens, Kyle and Brooks, in Boston, Massachusetts.