3 Key Reasons Family Travel Matters
Written By: Gail Clifford | Published By: Life By Design| August 03, 2019
“Traveling as a family is as critical to success as any other life skill.
You vacation as you live. Sure, you’re in a different location, but if you like to go 90 mph at home, chances are you’re not going to be able to do 10 mph on vacay. It’ll confuse the kids. Your family’s life rhythm, your choices to get the work done first or to procrastinate, the priorities you show – whether you’re reading a bedtime story to your child or getting one more thing done for work – continue on vacation.
1. Travel allows for new perspectives
Did you know that when your child starts refusing things at age 2, screaming “No” at the top of her voice, it’s because she’s beginning to understand there’s a separation between you and her? Before then, everything she thought, she thought you thought. Now there’s a discrepancy, and she fights to get her way.
Travel can be similar. But more cooperative. You go for new experiences. You enter someone else’s world and, especially overseas, adjust to a new mentality. You’ve taught your child the appropriate way to behave at home. Now, you have the chance to watch her interact with people further afield, learning from their approach to life.
Willingness to meet new people with respect, treating them the way you wish to be treated based on their cultural sensitivities, provides higher-level diplomatic training to your child.
2. If you’re open to new experiences, your kids will be too.
Having a generous spirit and thought process, rather than a fixed mindset, is critical in fostering resiliency in our kids.
Learning from personal experience is most valuable in childhood when parents are still present to protect them.
Have the gumption to go off the beaten path and pursue an unusual interest. Like leprosy? Go to the museum. Check out AtlasObscura.com for local options.
Gail Clifford
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