Momaboard.com Launches for Traveling Moms Everywhere

Feb. 9, 2011 - PRLog -- Unique web resource serves globe-trotting babies and their parents

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 9, 2011 – What better source for the latest information and encouragement for parent / child global travel than a very hip new website founded by a savvy young mom named Kaamna Bhojwani-Dhawan from San Francisco who was born in India, is married to an American of Indian descent named Rohit (who lived 10 years of his life in Saudi Arabia), is expecting her second child in July, and has already taken her Australian-born two-year-old son to visit India, Singapore, China, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Hungary, France, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Dubai?

Momaboard.com is her brainchild, and it’s a content-rich, ever changing interactive site for moms (and dads) who are or want to travel with their children.  Interestingly, in this world of limitless products for babies and children, there’s very little in the way of parent/child travel resources with an authentic, personal voice - until Momaboard.com came on the scene, that is. This fresh new website features topical articles (USA Today declares corporate travelers want children-free flights?  “Whose Business is Business?”), seasonal articles (“Valentine’s Day: Ditch the Kids and Take Your Mojo”), Travel Tips, highlighted Cities (recently, Dubrovnik, Mauritius, and Prague), Maps, Reviews, Forums, and a growing exclusive Deals & Discounts section.

Parents are loving it.  A recent comment by AfrikanaMama reads, “Definitely the best parent travel site out there!”  Another member recently wrote, “THANK YOU!! Your Barcelona recommendations were great, and definitely led to a better experience than we would have got going solely off of Rick Steves.”

Like all good interactive sites for moms and parents, Momaboard.com openly invites input from real readers and users.  The Reviews section invites members – who can join for free – to submit their own reviews of places they’ve visited and services they’ve used.  This keeps content fresh, ever growing, and honest.  

To learn more about this exciting new website and its founder, or to arrange an interview with Kaamna, please contact Ann Baker, Publicity Pros, Ann@PublicityPros.net, 213-785-8835.

ABOUT MOMABOARD.COM

Momaboard.com started as an answer to the oft-asked question posed to its founder:  Why do you travel with your son? Here is her response:

It’s a question that’s often been posed to me: why do you travel so much? Doesn’t your son get unsettled?

Unsettled? Me, maybe, not him.

I think through all the reasons not to travel: cost (especially now that he’s 2), the inconvenience, the discomfort, the glaring non-parental passengers on planes, and think that’s it’s a fair question.

I travel with my son because unlike many people, I don’t think there is one “best” country – I think every city, every nook and corner of the world has something special to offer and you will miss it if you don’t care to look. And yes, the internet is a great source of information, but it’s like eating a virtual dinner at El Bulli – how do you truly experience the wonder without touching, tasting, smelling it for yourself? That’s why I travel with my son, so he will be able to visit a third world country and see beyond just the poverty and despair to the wealth and beauty that reveals itself to eyes that want to see.

I travel with my son so he truly learns to appreciate diversity, not in the way we give it lip service today by being “PC,” but by being respectful, and asking questions, and coming from a place of genuine interest rather than preformed assumptions.  I want him to learn that Chinese people eat with chopsticks, and Indian people eat with their hands, and Mexicans wrap everything up in little tortillas and you should try in every culture to do as the locals, because unsurprisingly, that’s how the food tastes best.

I travel with my son because I want him to be flexible, to try anything once, and to never be hindered by a fear of the unknown. At the age of 2, he will sleep anywhere, eat anything, and adapt to new locations and cultures faster than I will. That kind of adaptability will hold him in good stead personally, professionally, and wherever he is in the world as an adult. Can you imagine how liberating that would be?

I travel with my son because it’s fun to see him marvel at gigantic structures in Tokyo, play with handcrafted wooden puppets in Prague, and dance to Māori beats in New Zealand. As adults, we tend to adopt an air of superiority, as if we are too cool to stare in wonder, too composed to clap our hands and squeal in delight.  Traveling with children you can’t help but participate and when you do, you truly experience. So some of this is for me.
 
I travel with my son because there is a high a price to be paid for ignorance today. We are all interconnected by a shrinking world, by pervasive technology and unrestricted information flows. If we don’t create a generation of unprejudiced, exposed and culturally aware global citizens, we have sorely failed in our job as parents.

That’s why I travel with my son.

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Momaboard.com (http://momaboard.com) is a new interactive membership website offering the latest information and encouragement for parent/child global travel. Founded by a savvy young mom named Kaamna Bhojwani-Dhawan from San Francisco who was born in India and has already taken her Australian-born two-year-old son to visit India, Singapore, China, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Hungary, France, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Dubai, Momaboard.com speaks from her personal voice and also exchanges open and honest communication among its members. Site features include Topical and Seasonal Articles, Travel Tips, highlighted Cities (recently, Dubrovnik, Mauritius, and Prague), Maps, Reviews, Forums, and a growing exclusive Deals & Discounts section.