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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Traveling is a very wise investment opposed to typical American vacations to idiotic places like Disneyland.  When you travel with your children they naturally become worldly just by waking up in the morning in a different country and that before you even visit Versailles that afternoon.

Amusement parks just on the surface have the potential to be dangerous.  Furthermore the G-Forces on a child's brain can't be good.

If Europe is too expensive then take road trips across the United States.  Turn every vacation into a learning experience and make them memorable.
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lol ooooookay.

We spent $3k one year on a big ski trip,  $700 a year for another 3 years straight (a couple weekend trips) then, gasp, $7k this year on Disney, because it’s something you take your lumps and do when you have kids. HHI of $700k.

Travel is never an “investment.” On the other hand, why have a high income if you can’t enjoy things sometimes. But it’s a self-indulgent luxury whether to Disney or Berlin. [/quote]

The difference is the Brandenburg Gate and Check Point Charlie are real.  The Magic Kingdom and Cinderella are just dopey.  I you want to see something majestic and awe inspiring visit the Redwood Forest, Yosemite, or The Badlands.

And to answer your questions everything people spend money on is an investment and secondly why bother having a HHI if that money is not spent on experiences that enrich your children.[/quote]

I’ve traveled extensively internationally and domestically so if I agreed with you I would know it but my eldest is still thrilled to talk about her Disney experience from earlier this year and has nothing to tell you about her Lewis & Clark fort visit.

I didn’t ask any questions. [/quote]

Not to mention that going to Disneyworld and seeing historic/cultural/majestic things are not mutually exclusive. It's not like you are only allowed to pick one. For that matter, one could argue that the fantasy, creativity, storytelling, theming, art, design, etc aspects of Disney are equally a part of a well-rounded education and child-development plan. Kids, especially young kids, learn from pretty much everything--it doesn't all have to be classical music, nature, and Europe all the time.[/quote]

Yup and also there's something to be said for age appropriateness. I'm not taking my 6 and 3 year old to Musee D'Orsay, even though I would much rather do that than Magic Kingdom. A much more age-appropriate trip for them, for enrichment, is camping. And for pure joy, it's Disney every time. If they were 13 and 16, that'd be a different conversation. [/quote]

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