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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

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.[/quote]

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.

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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.[/quote]

Of course there are benefits of travel and experiential learning.. but show me a shred of evidence that says that traveling (again, at TWO years old) somehow confers incremental benefit over and above other novel experiences. The likelihood that there are special "travel synapses" or "travel pathways" is far fetched at best. While I doubt that literature exists for this precise topic and age group, I would wager that even statistically significant results would be clinically meaningless.

Oh, and by asking HOW developmentally behind her child was going to be, one could deduce that she was indeed asking if not traveling would hurt her child.

Finally, would I use converse proof in a research paper, grant application, research talk, etc.? No. But it is perfectly appropriate for a stranger on an internet forum who is wondering whether she is hurting her child developmentally because she has not traveled. I'll also refer you to the cognitive therapy technique of cognitive restructuring, which, among other things, asks the participant to challenge irrational thoughts. Thinking to oneself "plenty of people are brilliant despite never having traveled as a child" is an appropriate application of the technique. 
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