Very interesting article in the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph, titled "Can we go home now?", on the subject of traveling to far-away locales with young children. The article examines both the educational justification of bringing kids along to climb a mountain or safari in Kenya and the selfish reasons parents will often make such travel decisions. A bigger question is whether children who have been to several continents before their teenage years will become jaded, bored, and generally uninterested in exotic travel by the time they are adults with their own families or will the experiences of their youth further enhance their passion for discovery and adventure through travel as an adult?Related articles and Links:
Hiking in Morocco with Kids
Adventure Center - Family Trips
Gordon's Guide
Jeff
http://www.outwiththekids.com
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I am glad I found this...I have a 18 month old and this was our first summer doing the "family vacation" thing.
I travelled alot in my 20s but for many reasons have kind of decided that family vacations, at least until the kid was a teen, would be domestic in orientation.
I think that people lose focus about the purpose of the vacation...the quality of time is really (to me anyway) the number one priority...and that can happen in almost any place. Taking the kid to Fiji? Well, that's kinda like buying him/her a Corvette when they get their license, it seems.
anyway, have bookmarked you, will be back.
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