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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From day one our daughter has come with us. Period. If we wanted to go to the beach, she came. Fly to Florida? She came. We incorporated her into our life, and as such she's an amazing traveler at age 6, incredibly patient, waits in lines, and is a blast to take everywhere.

You're starting late, so be ready for some bumps the first few trips, but if you want to take the trips then why not?

My brother and sister in law never take their 2 kids anywhere. I swear they rarely leave the house, and it's fine, their call, but when they did decide to take a vacation it was a headache and a bit of a disaster lol. [/quote]

Truly happy for you that your daughter is like this.  So is our first-born child.  If we hadn't had a 2nd one, we would have made the exact same comments as you, and possibly attributed her behavior and demeanor to our parenting.  Whenever we do anything with her, she is fun, patient, ready for almost anything.

Second kid?  Not so much.  Difficult from the start, can sometimes have a great time, sometimes not.  Have mostly figured out how to structure things to keep him happy, but sometimes misfire.

You can certainly help your children learn and manage things at the edges.  But the idea that you can drastically change their demeanor and response to the world just through your basic parenting does bear out through personal experience or that of people around us.

We had friends who bopped around Europe for 2 weeks with a 2 year old and a 5 year old, happy as could be.  The two year old literally never made a peep even if he was up until 10 PM some nights.  That's just who that kid is, has nothing to do with their parenting.[/quote]

I'm the PP you are quoting, and yes, we were blessed with a mostly well behaved child, but the point was we incorporated her into our life, we didn't make a new one focused around her. Yes, she's the center of our world, but we didn't stop doing things because we had a kid. Even if she would've been more difficult (and she has her moments lol) that wouldn't change our traveling. We love to travel, kid will come with. Kid will learn what to expect. We learn what to expect from our child. [/quote]

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