There are some incredible perks to traveling with your family!
Traveling is fun, relaxing, and exciting. No matter how big or small, vacations provide a wonderful break from everyday stress. A vacation also provides a huge opportunity to learn and grow.
Choosing to take your children on a trip can offer many more benefits than just what’s learned on the trip itself. Getting away from the everyday distractions of home, school, and work offers the opportunity to slow down and appreciate each other. Travel is one of the best investments you can make for your family. In today’s global world, it is more important than ever to expose our children to new people and cultures.
Here’s a few more of the wonderful benefits of taking your children with you when you travel:
- Raise children who LOVE to travel! Kids who are curious and have a sense of adventure are more successful.
- Build lifelong bonds and memories with each other. The shared experiences and unpredictable situations that arise during a trip promote trust and connection. Without the distractions of home, you have more engaged and ‘quality’ time together on vacation.
- Raise children to appreciate other cultures and beliefs. Travel gives kids exposure to how different people live, speak and eat. This understanding will make them ‘global citizens’, giving them a strong foundation for success in today’s world.
- Encourage more independent, responsible, and self confident kids. Travel requires us to get out of our ‘comfort zones’ and try new things. By involving kids in the planning and logistics of a vacation, they become invested in the success. And even when things don’t go according to plan, they learn to compromise and adapt.
- Raise better students. New settings and situations teach kids to be resourceful and flexible. Learning about history, geography and architecture in a destination (with all 5 senses) is a much richer learning experience than 4 walls of a classroom!
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin