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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How important is it to you, or should it be, to take all of your children together on a trip for fun at least once a year? This is a high priority for me, but that's probably because I had such positive experiences doing this as a child. But I notice now that I'm an adult that my peer parents don't all do this even when they have plenty of money for travel. (I say they have plenty of travel money because they do travel a lot, and to expensive places, just not together. For example, one child might do a $8K music camp for a few weeks, and one parent and a teen might do mountain climbing in Nepal. The other parent might spend two weeks in Sedona at a yoga retreat that same year.)

I grew up lower middle class and I always associated the ability to do at least a modest trip together as a family with something everyone who is not "dirt poor" does every summer. I'm now wondering if my view of how the other half lives was warped by too much Brady Bunch, and in reality it isn't a norm for parents and all their children to vacation together annually. [/quote]

Um, the examples you provided all sound highly specific to individual preferences and not some generic crowd pleasing family vacation. I mean, mountain climbing in Nepal--not everyone would like that, so why not only take the kid who wants to do it? And expensive music camp, again, highly specialized. I could see myself going to a yoga retreat for a couple of weeks where my H would rather go fishing with one of our kids during that time.[/quote]

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