User:Rosie whitehouse

Rosie Whitehouse (born 17 May 1961) is one of the country's leading experts in that tricky topic - travelling with children.

Rosie was born in Liverpool but grew up in south-west London. Her father was a mediacl academic who travelled extensively in the world's most inhospitable places. A family holiday was usually take while dad was working in politically turbulent Poland or Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Rosie studied Russian at the School of Slavonic Studies before moving on to take a degree in International History at the London School of Economic. She gratudated from the LSE in 1984 with a Master's in Russian Government and Politics. In 1985, she joined the pretigious BBC News Trainee Scheme.

She had a successful career at the BBC World Service until she became a mum. One look at her son Ben and the BBC couldn't compete. She edited her last edition of the prestigious BBc current affairs programme Newhour before following her husband, Tim Judah to post-revolutinary Romania. The growing family moved on to war- torn Yugoslavia and criss-crossed the frontlines in the red family salloon car as Tim reported from the latest hotspots for the Times nad The Economist.

The family moved back to London in 1995, although Tim continued to cover the world's hotspots. Back in Shepherd's Bush, Rosie continued developing her ironing skills as she built a new career as a freelance journalist. Rosie has written on parenting and family issues for a wide range of newspapers and magazines, as well as Lonely Planet, and is the author of Take the Kids: South of France (Cadogan, 2003). Rosie lives in Shepherd’s Bush with her husband and their five children.

Her account of her experiences raising a family in a mad cap world of violence and political mayhem, Are We There Yet? Travels with my frontline family was published in 2007 by Reportage Press. Follow the latest news from the home front on www.travelswithmyfrontlinefamily.blogspot.com