Natalya Zaritskaya
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Three and a half hours into holiday travel with their kids is when “peak stress” hits parents, according to new research.
The survey of 2,000 parents with kids aged 5–12, who have traveled for the holidays with their child in the last year, looked at the highs (and lows) of traveling with little ones during the end of the year.
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