I don’t know anyone besides non-US countries that allow people to take vacations for that long. But yes, that’s a long time for teens, esp. bc summers become busy with ECs.

My 15 yo still loves travel & visiting family. But he also loves summer swim team, and needs to be around for marching band camp 3 weeks before school starts. So we travel for about 2 weeks per summer. Even when the kids were younger, we never traveled more than 2-3 weeks per summer (except in 2020, when there no activities/sports anyway).

Anonymous wrote:Depends on the kid and the travel, I think! We typically go away for about 4 weeks and always have done and my kids, currently 14 and 12, love it. They spend the rest of the summer at sleep away camps or seeing friends at home so they get a good mix. They really enjoy the travel we do though

I have 13 and 15 year olds. One loves to travel and one hates it. It makes it hard to plan.

We are Asian American and know Asian families who will go visit their home countries for the entire summer. Moms do not work.

Depends on the kid and the travel, I think! We typically go away for about 4 weeks and always have done and my kids, currently 14 and 12, love it. They spend the rest of the summer at sleep away camps or seeing friends at home so they get a good mix. They really enjoy the travel we do though

Ever since my kid was 14 he needed to be around most of the summer if he wanted to play his high school sport. There is a lot of summer stuff and though they understand people take vacations and jobs, they expect kids show up for as much as they can.

He also wants to work.

We take a normal vacation or two. A week here, a long weekend there.