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Originally Posted by travel4four
And the two aren't mutually exclusive. It may mean shorter trips, but kids can be great travellers - and travel can provide a great learning experience. Even before they "remember" places, they create sensory memories - so after you've been to a desert with your two-year-old, they'll remember the feeling of sand and dry and heat when you read them a book about deserts, even if they don't remember the trip itself. You have to adapt the *style* of travel (probably stuck with 4 wheels for the foreseeable future), but not abandon travel itself.
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That's the thing with kids (or now grandkids in my case), everything is new. So you may be an old travel hand who sneers at anything under 1000 miles as 'a shopping trip', but for the kids, even getting in the car is an adventure (even if 5 mins later they're asking 'are we there yet'  ). Years back on of the UK standup comedians, in one of his tv show's more serious moments, asked his guest 'what do you think your half life is'? By that he meant at what age do you think you've experienced half the things you'll ever experience for the first time. The comedian's answer was twelve. So kids pack a lot into those early years, with much, if not most of it, under parental direction. What you do with them stands a good chance of influencing what they in turn will do with their children in the distant future. Hard to believe really but decisions you make now(ish) may have an effect not only on the unborn but on their unborn. So think carefully now, the fate of some the dust of the universe depends on it. Not that I want to worry you or anything ...
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