Two-year-old child has never been outside the town we live in.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop attacking parents who travel, DCUM. It makes you look insecure and weak.

And OP, I don't think you have anything to worry about. DC is a major city that bring travel to you.

Because travel is good for a child it doesn't mean that not traveling is bad for a child. This is where DCUM ALWAYS fails. As a PP pointed out, in raising children and learning, the opposite doesn't always hold true. Learning music, a second language, to dance - all these things are good for a growing brain. However, the lack of these things are not BAD for a growing brain.

It's the attitude of the traveling parents and the thinking that traveling hundreds or thousands of miles is by far the best ways to introduce young children to different sounds, smells, tastes, faces, activities, etc. If you have the means to bring little kids traveling and the kids enjoy it, that's great.

But with creativity and resourcefulness you can give your TODDLER 99% of a faraway experience close to home, especially in the DC area.

You know the attitude of all parents who travel with their children?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop attacking parents who travel, DCUM. It makes you look insecure and weak.

And OP, I don't think you have anything to worry about. DC is a major city that bring travel to you.

Because travel is good for a child it doesn't mean that not traveling is bad for a child. This is where DCUM ALWAYS fails. As a PP pointed out, in raising children and learning, the opposite doesn't always hold true. Learning music, a second language, to dance - all these things are good for a growing brain. However, the lack of these things are not BAD for a growing brain.

It's the attitude of the traveling parents and the thinking that traveling hundreds or thousands of miles is by far the best ways to introduce young children to different sounds, smells, tastes, faces, activities, etc. If you have the means to bring little kids traveling and the kids enjoy it, that's great.

But with creativity and resourcefulness you can give your TODDLER 99% of a faraway experience close to home, especially in the DC area.

You know the attitude of all parents who travel with their children?

Er, the attitude on this thread. Have you read all the posts?

[Anonymous]

Traveling at this age is not important. New experiences are, and you can give that to your kids close to home. My parents (international travelers themselves) never took us abroad or even far out of state while we were young. When we were older (7+?) we began traveling around the US.

Today all of us are well adjusted adults who’ve traveled extensively with our own money. I’m not spending my time or money wrangling my 2 year old in a different time zone without childcare. DH and I wouldn’t be able to enjoy that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Toddlers may benefit from travel, but toddlers who don't travel can also be completely fine.

OP, its no big deal. Your kid will be fine. You can accomplish all these big deal developmental things by taking her hiking or camping nearby.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop attacking parents who travel, DCUM. It makes you look insecure and weak.

And OP, I don't think you have anything to worry about. DC is a major city that bring travel to you.

Because travel is good for a child it doesn't mean that not traveling is bad for a child. This is where DCUM ALWAYS fails. As a PP pointed out, in raising children and learning, the opposite doesn't always hold true. Learning music, a second language, to dance - all these things are good for a growing brain. However, the lack of these things are not BAD for a growing brain.

Nobody is "attacking" parents who travel, just pointing out that whether or not parents travel with their 2-year-olds is highly unlikely to make much of a difference in the long run.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop attacking parents who travel, DCUM. It makes you look insecure and weak.

And OP, I don't think you have anything to worry about. DC is a major city that bring travel to you.

Because travel is good for a child it doesn't mean that not traveling is bad for a child. This is where DCUM ALWAYS fails. As a PP pointed out, in raising children and learning, the opposite doesn't always hold true. Learning music, a second language, to dance - all these things are good for a growing brain. However, the lack of these things are not BAD for a growing brain.

It's the attitude of the traveling parents and the thinking that traveling hundreds or thousands of miles is by far the best ways to introduce young children to different sounds, smells, tastes, faces, activities, etc. If you have the means to bring little kids traveling and the kids enjoy it, that's great.

But with creativity and resourcefulness you can give your TODDLER 99% of a faraway experience close to home, especially in the DC area.

You know the attitude of all parents who travel with their children?

Er, the attitude on this thread. Have you read all the posts?

I have read them all and they all have stated something about traveling that is true. Not one of them said it was bad not to travel.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do think that traveling is important as is exposing your child to as many things as possible at an early age (before five). You still have time, OP.

Which they then forget, because that is how their brains work.

OP, just pretend you took her places. She'll never know.

The brain synapses are there from travel, PP. Has nothing to do with memory. Travel is great for little kids.

+1 as well as emotional pathways. A baby learns he/she is safe in a totally different environment with different sounds, smells, and sights. Promotes self-sufficiency and well-being as well as risk taking.

Like PP wrote, retrievable memory has nothing to do with it. The baby's senses have all been enlivened.

I'm a clinical psychologist and these posts are 100% bullshit.

Take your kid for a hike, to the beach, to a museum, to mommy and me classes, etc. and they will be just fine. They're two years old.
Plenty of people are brilliant without ever having been to Hawaii or Russia or Cuba etc.

You are a clinical psychologists and you have never heard of the benefits of travel and experiential learning? I am very surprised.

Also it is strange that you, as a psychologist, took the unfounded leap to the converse proof - that because there are brilliant people who never traveled that traveling therefore does nothing to further brilliance.

Very strange leaps for a clinical psychologist, of all people.

The posts are not bullshit as they are not exclusive positions. Yes, travel does benefit young children for the reasons provided. No one ever stated that the lack of travel hurts a child.

I'm also a clinical psychologist and I concur the bullshit assessment. This is what happens when parenting magazines water down neuroscience.

OP, play with your kid. Love her. Nurture her and do what you need to do so she feels secure. If your family wants to travel and you can, do it. But pretending that travel somehow gives toddlers a developmental edge is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do think that traveling is important as is exposing your child to as many things as possible at an early age (before five). You still have time, OP.

Which they then forget, because that is how their brains work.

OP, just pretend you took her places. She'll never know.

The brain synapses are there from travel, PP. Has nothing to do with memory. Travel is great for little kids.

+1 as well as emotional pathways. A baby learns he/she is safe in a totally different environment with different sounds, smells, and sights. Promotes self-sufficiency and well-being as well as risk taking.

Like PP wrote, retrievable memory has nothing to do with it. The baby's senses have all been enlivened.

This PP probably uses the line that she is "enlivening her baby's senses" while she drags the kid everywhere b.c she doesn't want to change HER lifestyle.

This is a direct attack on a parent (I am guessing) who travels with their children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do think that traveling is important as is exposing your child to as many things as possible at an early age (before five). You still have time, OP.

Which they then forget, because that is how their brains work.

OP, just pretend you took her places. She'll never know.

The brain synapses are there from travel, PP. Has nothing to do with memory. Travel is great for little kids.

+1 as well as emotional pathways. A baby learns he/she is safe in a totally different environment with different sounds, smells, and sights. Promotes self-sufficiency and well-being as well as risk taking.

Like PP wrote, retrievable memory has nothing to do with it. The baby's senses have all been enlivened.

This PP probably uses the line that she is "enlivening her baby's senses" while she drags the kid everywhere b.c she doesn't want to change HER lifestyle.

This is a direct attack on a parent (I am guessing) who travels with their children.

It's an attack on her delusion of grandeur, yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do think that traveling is important as is exposing your child to as many things as possible at an early age (before five). You still have time, OP.

Which they then forget, because that is how their brains work.

OP, just pretend you took her places. She'll never know.

The brain synapses are there from travel, PP. Has nothing to do with memory. Travel is great for little kids.

+1 as well as emotional pathways. A baby learns he/she is safe in a totally different environment with different sounds, smells, and sights. Promotes self-sufficiency and well-being as well as risk taking.

Like PP wrote, retrievable memory has nothing to do with it. The baby's senses have all been enlivened.

This PP probably uses the line that she is "enlivening her baby's senses" while she drags the kid everywhere b.c she doesn't want to change HER lifestyle.

This is a direct attack on a parent (I am guessing) who travels with their children.

It's an attack on her delusion of grandeur, yes.

PP said no one attacked parents who travel. This is an attack.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do think that traveling is important as is exposing your child to as many things as possible at an early age (before five). You still have time, OP.

Which they then forget, because that is how their brains work.

OP, just pretend you took her places. She'll never know.

The brain synapses are there from travel, PP. Has nothing to do with memory. Travel is great for little kids.

+1 as well as emotional pathways. A baby learns he/she is safe in a totally different environment with different sounds, smells, and sights. Promotes self-sufficiency and well-being as well as risk taking.

Like PP wrote, retrievable memory has nothing to do with it. The baby's senses have all been enlivened.

I'm a clinical psychologist and these posts are 100% bullshit.

Take your kid for a hike, to the beach, to a museum, to mommy and me classes, etc. and they will be just fine. They're two years old.
Plenty of people are brilliant without ever having been to Hawaii or Russia or Cuba etc.

You are a clinical psychologists and you have never heard of the benefits of travel and experiential learning? I am very surprised.

Also it is strange that you, as a psychologist, took the unfounded leap to the converse proof - that because there are brilliant people who never traveled that traveling therefore does nothing to further brilliance.

Very strange leaps for a clinical psychologist, of all people.

The posts are not bullshit as they are not exclusive positions. Yes, travel does benefit young children for the reasons provided. No one ever stated that the lack of travel hurts a child.

I'm also a clinical psychologist and I concur the bullshit assessment. This is what happens when parenting magazines water down neuroscience.

OP, play with your kid. Love her. Nurture her and do what you need to do so she feels secure. If your family wants to travel and you can, do it. But pretending that travel somehow gives toddlers a developmental edge is ridiculous.

I do not see the "bullshit", Clinical Psychologist. What did the above PPs write that was not true? Does travel NOT enliven the senses? Does being comfortable and secure in a foreign environment NOT create pathways in the brain that lead to other positive qualities? No one is saying that travel is the only way to achieve these things but I simply do not see the "bullshit" you and the other PP sees.

And I am also a Clinical Psychologist specializing in very young children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do think that traveling is important as is exposing your child to as many things as possible at an early age (before five). You still have time, OP.

Which they then forget, because that is how their brains work.

OP, just pretend you took her places. She'll never know.

The brain synapses are there from travel, PP. Has nothing to do with memory. Travel is great for little kids.

+1 as well as emotional pathways. A baby learns he/she is safe in a totally different environment with different sounds, smells, and sights. Promotes self-sufficiency and well-being as well as risk taking.

Like PP wrote, retrievable memory has nothing to do with it. The baby's senses have all been enlivened.

This PP probably uses the line that she is "enlivening her baby's senses" while she drags the kid everywhere b.c she doesn't want to change HER lifestyle.

This is a direct attack on a parent (I am guessing) who travels with their children.

It's an attack on her delusion of grandeur, yes.

PP said no one attacked parents who travel. This is an attack.

Are you new to DCUM? Or the internet?

[Anonymous]

I could just as easily argue, with as much scientific backing, that travelling across time zones is detrimental to toddlers b.c it disturbs their routines and sleep patterns.

Its OK, OP. Don't compare yourself and your family to other people.

[Anonymous]

Baltimore is just up the road

[Anonymous]

Literally never left town? I see no issue with no long distance travel but a big issue with how much your 2 year old is limiting your general mobility with her.