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When I was a child, we rarely went on big family trips.When I was a child, we rarely went on big family trips.
Part of that is generational. I was born in the ’60s, when the lives of children and their parents were more separate. Air travel was still special and, in my family, reserved for the adults. But there was something innate, too. I think some people are wanderers, and others are not. We had a vacation house in the same state as our “real” house, and when vacation time rolled around, that’s where we went.Part of that is generational. I was born in the ’60s, when the lives of children and their parents were more separate. Air travel was still special and, in my family, reserved for the adults. But there was something innate, too. I think some people are wanderers, and others are not. We had a vacation house in the same state as our “real” house, and when vacation time rolled around, that’s where we went.
In my own life as a parent, I’ve leaned hard the opposite way. I have a photograph of my son at 2½, peering into a fancy bathtub at a hotel in Paris. Before he was 10 he’d traveled to China. I didn’t take an international flight until my junior year of college.In my own life as a parent, I’ve leaned hard the opposite way. I have a photograph of my son at 2½, peering into a fancy bathtub at a hotel in Paris. Before he was 10 he’d traveled to China. I didn’t take an international flight until my junior year of college.
The pandemic put our journeys on hold for a while; our 2020 trip to Japan is now planned for later this year. But it seems as if everyone is on the move and families aren’t leaving anyone home with the babysitter. Hotels are ditching “no children” rules. Generations are heading off together, often with grandparents and grandkids sharing their own adventure and leaving parents out of it. That kind of shift in how we vacation inspired me and my colleagues on The Times’s travel desk to put together a special package published this week on family travel.The pandemic put our journeys on hold for a while; our 2020 trip to Japan is now planned for later this year. But it seems as if everyone is on the move and families aren’t leaving anyone home with the babysitter. Hotels are ditching “no children” rules. Generations are heading off together, often with grandparents and grandkids sharing their own adventure and leaving parents out of it. That kind of shift in how we vacation inspired me and my colleagues on The Times’s travel desk to put together a special package published this week on family travel.
Why take the kids along? I think that those of us who do hope our children will be more curious, more tolerant and better able to negotiate the world. We take our children to museums, hoping our love of culture will rub off; we explore the natural world, hoping to get them to look up and experience the earth’s beauty; we mix in some history with the child-centric activities to help them understand the tides that continue to carry us along.Why take the kids along? I think that those of us who do hope our children will be more curious, more tolerant and better able to negotiate the world. We take our children to museums, hoping our love of culture will rub off; we explore the natural world, hoping to get them to look up and experience the earth’s beauty; we mix in some history with the child-centric activities to help them understand the tides that continue to carry us along.
On that trip to France when my son was little, we went to Giverny to see Monet’s house and dragged him through the Louvre in a stroller. We also rented a farmhouse in the south of France that was surrounded by vineyards. One morning, a big blue grape-harvesting machine arrived, driving through the rows of vines and pulling the ripe grapes into its maw. My son was enthralled. For him, it was the highlight of the trip.
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