posted by Travel Cat on Jan 10
Welcome to new year of vacations - and perhaps a few more nearer to home this year.
Money is not something we want to give away so easily these days, so when booking your family vacation and traveling around with your kids - it’s time to think about how you can make the most out of a tight budget or a long drive.
Only yesterday was I sitting in the launderette finding a poor child having to entertain himself for the hour he was sitting there while his dad read a book! Needless to say, he annoyed his dad (and everyone else) during that time by screaming, crying, running around and generally doing what a child would do anywhere else - but by the time he got to leave - his father had already cancelled all bed-time stories and taken his trucks off him!!
How can we expect children to behave if we don’t give them the opportunity to be good! And Emma Evans did the ‘travel’ equivalent of what the father should have done, and aims at the kids point of view to get her own satisfaction. Read Family vacation can be fun or a disappointment - the choice is yours. to see how she did it.
However, Bridget Smith seems to have learnt things the hard way in her description of An Unexpected Adventure. They got there in the end, but are not planning to make the same mistake twice!!
A final article is more on a serious note regarding Hidden Hotel Travel Dangers Safeguarding the Room for Kids as detailed by Travel Advocate. Danger is all around when you have children, but if you plan ahead, you can avoid silly accidents and keep your vacation fun, rather than a terrible story to tell your friends when you finally get back home!
Thanks again for the contributors, and I hope you like their stories. More next month.
Travel Cat
January 15th, 2009 at 9:44 am
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