Eileen ogintz biography

Eileen Ogintz is considered a leading national travel expert and syndicated columnist of the weekly column Taking the Kids.

Award-winning author Eileen Ogintz is a leading national family travel expert whose syndicated Taking the Kids is the most widely distributed column in the country on family travel.

Award-winning author Eileen Ogintz is a leading national family travel expert whose syndicated Taking the Kids is the most widely distributed column in the country on family travel.

Eileen holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and is a year veteran of the news business, reporting for The Anniston Star, The.

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Eileen holds a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri, is a year veteran of the news business, reporting for The Anniston Star, The Record in.

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Read her biography and how she became an expert on family travel.

The meeting of a three-year-old, a cat and a goldfish pond started Taking the Kids, now the leading nationally syndicated family travel column.

Eileen Ogintz’s then three-year-old son Matt, pushed a hapless kitty into a pond at a Wisconsin cottage her family had rented for the weekend.

The furious owner insisted they pack up and leave immediately. The embarrassed parents drove home three hours to Chicago in a downpour. “I thought the kitty wanted to eat the goldfish,” Matt explained

Ogintz was a national correspondent for the Chicago Tribune then (), covering news stories around the country.

The travel editor, hearing her tale of woe about the cat and the goldfish pond, encouraged her to write a story about the trials of traveling with young children. That story led to ot