u/Ok_Wind7835

Hey we got our daughter a Yoto mini for travelling and she’s loving the ease of the story cards we bought with it.

We are extremely frustrated though with the limitations on the MYO cards, which were marketed as having so many uses. But you seem to need to stay on Wifi for a lot of those options? I’ve tried loading podcasts and the free Yoto library content onto cards and the cards work fine in our Airbnb but stop working as soon as we leave wifi. I’m putting the MYO cards into the Yoto and then taking them out, allowing it ample time to download overnight, so is it just that they didn’t design this content to be used offline? If so, why not?!

The only success I’ve had is downloading a podcast series to my laptop and then creating my own playlist to load onto a MYO card but that took so long, I’m not willing to do it with every card. Is this a scam to force busy parents to buy more cards?

Please tell me if I’m doing something wrong or if anyone has a quick workaround? My now very disappointed 4 year old taking the train all day will thank you!!!! 🙏 🤪❤️

Hi there, would love some help ensuring this translation is accurate if any Portuguese-speaking folks on here could give it a quick look?

We'll be spending the next month in Portugal with our family. My son will be 7 months old while we're there and I've been trying to get through all the possible allergen foods with him before we leave but there are a few (tree nuts, soy, sesame, etc) that we won't have made it to. Thankfully he's fine with fish and shellfish!

I'm not going to purposely feed him new potential allergens while we're there but in case he accidentally eats an unfamiliar food, I just wanted to make sure I can communicate what's happening. Most places we'll be staying in are bigger cities so I'm not too concerned about communicating but we will be spending a week in a smaller, more rural setting and in case there are no English speakers around, I'm hoping I can have a fairly straightforward translation ready to go in the very small chance that an emergency occurs. I'm probably being overly paranoid but just having the right words will help ease my mind :)

This is what I'd like to be able say:

Please help, we think our son is having an allergic reaction and we need to get him medical attention right away. He's seven months old and in good health, this has never happened before.

This is what Google Translate spat out, but would love to know if there's a smoother way to say this:

Por favor, ajudem-nos, achamos que nosso filho está tendo uma reação alérgica e precisamos levá-lo ao médico imediatamente. Ele tem sete meses e está bem de saúde, isso nunca aconteceu antes.

Thank you in advance to anyone who can advise :)

I’ve been trying to move towards more sustainable and natural fibres for my family’s clothing but it feels like the deeper I go down this rabbit hole, the more alarming it all becomes. My IG algorithm is serving me up so many “non toxic” influencers and it seems like almost every type of fabric is terrible unless it’s silk or GOTS certified regenerative organic cotton???

I thought I was making some kind of difference in our household by at least getting rid of synthetics but is all our non-organic cotton super toxic / full of chemicals? Can anyone with real knowledge in this area point me towards some trustworthy research on the subject?

Hello there fellow travellers and (hopefully) Portugal locals!

I'm in the midst of planning a month-long trip to Portugal, something our family has been wanting to do for years. We've visited the country several times on shorter trips and every visit we lament that we didn't have enough time!

We're going to be in Portugal from mid June to mid July this year, and we are a family of four - 2 adults, a 4 year old and a 6 month old. Given that we're travelling with small kids/infants and all of their gear, we're hoping to minimize our moves. So goal is to nail down 3-4 stops where we can spend about a week each.

This is so tough for me as there are so many places I want to visit, but I understand this is not the time in our lives to be moving quickly.

Our first stop is the only one I've booked. We're flying into Lisbon, and I have us spending a week in Cascais. We've been there before and know it's a nice sized spot for traipsing around on foot, there are nearby beaches, and we can train into the city if we want.

From there, I'm really interested in exploring Northern Portugal (the Algarve is beautiful but we were there on our last visit). We've also already spent time in Porto and I would skip in this trip in favour of exploring new places.

Given ages of our kids, we're looking for places with beaches, great parks, great restaurants, and markets. Not much of an attention span for museums, ruins, etc - we'll save that for when kids are older. But any attractions specific to young kids is of course of interest to us!

Here's some stops I'm considering/torn between:

A week in one of the beach houses in Costa Nova, and we can bus into Aviero if we feel like exploring. But besides beach, is there much to do in the Costa Nova area on foot? Market? Good restaurants? Parks for kids?

A week in either Amarante or one of the towns in the Douro Valley. This is an area I'm super keen to explore but having a hard time wrapping my head around where to base ourselves. Amarante looks beautiful, but is there much to do there with small kids? Would we be better off finding a vineyard or a farm stay in the valley? Are the different towns in the Douro Valley relatively easy to hop between by train as day trips or are we going to need a car to properly explore?

A week in Viana do Castello - this spot has been recommeded to me by several people and it looks very cute. It's further to travel to from Lisbon but if we spend at least a week there I can justify it. Is a week there with kids a good amount?

A week in Seimbra at the end of our trip might be a nice base to be close-ish to the airport and give us the option of not staying in Lisbon at all this time? But is a week here worth it? Will it feel too similar to Cascais in terms of a beach town close to Lisbon? Should we just do one of the two and explore other regions instead?

Also would love any rec's for areas of Lisbon to stay as we most likely will need to stop here for a few nights on our way home - last time we stayed in the Santos area and liked it a lot. Preferred it to the more touristy areas. But would love any other neighborhood recs to check out, especially areas great for families.

Thanks for any help or guidance you can offer!