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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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

OP, just pretend you took her places. She'll never know.[/quote]

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

+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.  [/quote]

Hehe.

You are making up stuff.

OP, my kids have travelled all over this country (every state but Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, Arkansas, Michigan and South Carolinia.

They have seen national parks, beautiful homes like Hearst castle, the Winchester house, and the Biltmore.

They have tasted the great salt flats, hiked through the giant redwoods in the Avenue of the Giants, climbed Manoa Falls and eaten wild blueberries off the top of Acadia.

They have been to NYC, Disneyland and Disneyworld, the Grand Canyon, the Alamo, Laura Ingalls Wilder's homested and town, the Seattle fish market, the Gateway Arch, and more.

We used strollers through age four and a monkey leash backpack for my one runner.

Many of their travel experiences happened before they were school aged.

They do not remember a dang thing from age two. They have fleeting memories of a few (significant to them) places and events from age 2-4.  They loved the travels from age 5 on.

Travel if you can, but do not beat yourself up or listen to people who say you are holding your toddler back if you do not travel with them now. I promise it will be okay, and that your kid might still be adventurous, a lover of jew things and places, and easily adaptable if you wait a little longer to introduce her to travel.[/quote]

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