15 reasons why you should travel with your child

 

Traveling with a chid may not be easy, as it requires a lot of patience..but its certainly worth all the effort. I have list down these reasons why you should be packing your bags and bring your kid out for an adventure of a lifetime..

 

1. TRAVELING WITH KIDS ALLOWS THE FAMILY TO BOND TOGETHER.
   
   During a trip away from home, parents are not binded by work commitment nor being distracted by technology, that they will be able to offer their undivided time for the kids. The family can go on explore new sights together, making group decisions as a family (and taking risk along the way), get to talk about things that affect everyone, and possibly to laugh over the same jokes. This is uninterrupted quality family time definitely helps the members of the family to grow closer to each other.
    

2. TRAVELING WITH KIDS CREATES BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES FOR A LIFE TIME.
   
   Kids are naturally curious and ready to take an adventure. You will be so pleased to be around to witness many of their first experiences doing something different - the first time he or she step on a padi field, ridding a buffalo, or tasted an exotic fruit. Over time when you look back on those trips, these fond memories will provide nothing but warming smiles for a long time to come.
    

3. TRAVELING WITH KIDS GIVES THEM MORE CHANCE TO PLAY.
   
   Nowadays kids often live in a well scheduled busy life, doing formula learning in modern classrooms and bury themselves in tons of homework, and suffer from a deficit of unstructured free play. Being at a different environment, away from the rigid routine at home, allows them unlimited time to discover and exploring their surroundings, and engage in new experiences.. and this play at free will allows them to exercise their imagination, bring about their curiosity and generate their passion for learning and grow creativity.
    

4. TRAVELING WITH KIDS IMPROVES THEIR EDURANCE AND STAMINA.
   
   All the walking, trekking, climbing and biking while you travel help to increases their bodies' endurance and stamina. Being away from work and school and out for exploration means everyone in the family is getting more exercise. Carrying the luggages thru places also helps to improve strength, and over time you'll notice that your kids are able to lift bigger loads for longer. Traveling also helps young children to expand all their energy for each day
    

5. TRAVELING WITH KIDS SHOWS THEM HOW TO BE DECISION MAKERS.
   
   When we are on a trip at a new place, decisions are to be made everyday - like what we want to do for that day, which attraction to go etc - and at the same time having to consider alternatives, weighing costs against benefits on some instances. Learning to work around with contingency plans on a holiday is but the best way for kids to learn how to to rational decision makers.
    

6. TRAVELING WITH KIDS ALLOWS THEM TO LEARN ABOUT REAL WORLD ISSUES.
   
   Schools and books may provide a lot of knowledge, but traveling provides a first hand engaging experience for them to truly understand issues faced by people around the world - climate change, living conditions, social rights, poverty and nature conservation etc. Who knows, these experience may eventually promote their imagination and inspires your child to contribute his or her effort and cause to make this world a better place.
    

7. TRAVELING WITH KIDS DEVELOPS THEIR DESIGN & CREATIVITY.
   
   Your kids will get to see that things are done in many different ways around the world, how people live in different types of housing, eat different kind of food, and practice different lifestyle, and soon they will understand that plates don’t necessarily have to be round. These new perspectives may bring upon them new ideas to improve how things can be done back at home.
    

8. TRAVELING WITH KIDS TEACHES THEM TO APPRECIATE THEIR LIFE.
   
   Nowadays its common to see that kids are taking everything for granted. It's important for kids to understand their life within a greater global context. Traveling helps to compare the freedoms, opportunities, living standards and relative safety and security of our country and communities with much of the planet. Only when kids are aware of the larger world around them will they best appreciate their own little part of it and understand how privileged they are.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    

9. TRAVELING WITH KIDS INFUSES POSITIVENESS INTO THEM.
   
   When we travel as a family with young children, the locals will be more likely to reach out and offer their assistance to us. Kids themselves are easy to make new friends with other local children who are not selfish to share what they have. Being on the road allows your child to be exposed a lot of random kindness and experience this abundance of warmth, that would not be as common back home.  This acknowledgement that people are actually innately good will translate into a lot of positiveness for your child growing up and helps greatly with his or her acceptance in their growing up world and personal well-being.
    

10. TRAVELING WITH KIDS HELPS TO EXPAND THEIR EMPATHY.
    
    Traveling allows us to encounter random people from outside our usual social circle, of different life pursuits, from different backgrounds and views from our own. Parents who talk to the person sitting next to them on the train or plane, with the aim to understand their feelings and perspective, will lead their kids to develop a insatiable curiosity about strangers, that being a natural inquisitiveness of all kids. Doing a homestay in a rustic village also let the child to have a better understanding of the hardships faced by the locals. It will be wonderful for our kids to gain that ability to step into the shoes of another person, and use that understanding to guide their future actions and enhance life satisfaction.
     

11. TRAVELING WITH KIDS DEMONSTRATES THEY CAN LIVE WITH BASICS.
    
    Most of the kids nowadays feels that they are entitled to the latest video systems, their own tablets and cell phones and couldn’t seem to understand how its possible to grow up without them.. but a check with kids from other part of the world shows that its possible to have a life without a lot of new clothes or new shoes, and for them to have a lot of fun without any sophisticated toys - all they need is creativity. Traveling is possible only when we bring with us the bare necessities, and that helps our kids to understand what is important and that they can actually survive with very little, and helps to make them less demanding.
     

12. TRAVELING WITH KIDS IMPROVES THEIR SOCIAL SKILLS.
    
    Traveling requires our kids to get involved in conversations with someone they wouldn’t usually talk to - people of different nationality carrying out their daily activities, be it at a cafe, a park, a grocery store or at any other place - and that helps them to develop more confidence in communicating with people and dealing with new situations. Being on a trip with parents do let their support helps!
     

13. TRAVELING WITH KIDS TEACHES THEM TO TRUST OTHERS.
    
    When we travel we often chat up with total strangers, some just remained as mere superficial conversations while others on significantly more honest and intimate levels. in observing on how new friendships are formed, kids will understand how to give out their trust, and at the same time to learn how to earn trust back from others. This will help to develop self esteem in time to come.
     

14. TRAVELING WITH KIDS LETS PARENTS REDISCOVER THIS WORLD.
    
    As parents we are often too busy trying to work out our routine that we hardly have time for anything new. Traveling with kids helps us ’see' the many joys of this world through their innocent and inquisitive eyes, With kids traveling with you, the world will surely appears to be an even more amazing place than you ever imagined it to be.
     

15. TRAVELING WITH KIDS OFFERS PARENTS MORE REST TIME.
    
    Its amazing but true. When kids are allowed enough free play and engage in different activities to deplete all their energy for at least a few days in a row, they become more manageable - They finished up their food, and sleep early and soundly too. Traveling also helps to take things off our minds and leave the never ending house chores behind. 

 

All in all, traveling provides a lot of new experiences, exciting adventures and learning opportunities for our children - something all kids craved for.  If you didn’t want to wait until your chid grows into a independant teenager before you wished that you have had more bonding time with him/her doing something special when they were younger.. then you probably have to start planning something now

 

Do go out there and scoop up all the unique experiences this world can offer us

 

That being a whole different experience. 

 

Go for it!