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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On traveling with young kids….do it if you want to do it, but they won’t remember much/. They might remember a particular slide or an animal or one thing you ate.  My four year old adored Costa Rica but now a decades later does not remember any of it.

I don’t think early travel really makes them better travelers in the long run — those of you with good travelers that are older probably would have had good travelers anyway/. A lot of it is genetic. Also if your kids were bad travelers (eg didn’t sleep well at night) you probably would have stopped.  So you didn’t create good travelers — you just lucked out with them.  We traveled a ton when my kids were little but my oldest (now an adult) is just not an avid traveler due to sleep and dietary issues.  And I never traveled as a kid because my parents didn’t have the money but I am a great traveler and was pretty much immediately that way as soon as I was able, because my personality type is just laid back, like to try new things and I have no sleep or dietary issues.

I do think early travel can help kids develop interests that will sometimes stick with them.  So a kid that takes a great hiking trip at 6 might discover a love of it that causes them to hike more at home and get really into nature.  Or a kid might develop an interest in animals or history or something that sticks with them.  Like any kind of learning, it’s good for brain development even if it doesn’t stick with them.
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I fully disagree with the concept of judging the worth of something to young children by their actual memories of it.  Early travel experiences broaden young minds so that they understand that there are different ways of living.  Obviously this applies to travel to actual places, not like Disney.  But the value of early education is not that you remember the lessons explicitly, it is that they are burned deeper into you and your understanding of the world.[/quote]

Spot on. I mean with this logic why not lock them in a room until they “remember” things? Why have a 3rd birthday party? Why visit grandma? Experiences feed the soul. If nothing else, I will remember it! [/quote]

I don’t care if they remember things. It is just a pain in the neck traveling with kids under 6 and you can have more fun visiting family who will provide free babysitting.[/quote]

I guess if you have uncool kids that you don’t enjoy spending time with. [/quote]

If you want us to believe that you enjoy every minute of time with your kids because they are "cool kids" ... well, we don't. [/quote]

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