Part 2 of the 12 Reasons to Travel With Your Children Series

Posted on Nov 15, 2014 | 0 comments

When you travel with your children, you open countless new doors for both them and yourself.

Even if it is a day trip to the next town over, making sure to travel with your children is so important. I feel so passionate about family travel that I will be launching the web series Mama Loves Family Travel in 2015!

On Thursday I released the first 3 reasons to travel with your children.

Here are the next 3 Reasons to Travel With Your Children:

4^th Reason to Travel With Your Children

Invaluable Family Time. Did you know that the average American family spends about 3-4 hours of awake time together during the week, and most of that is eating or dressing time? However, when you are on a family trip or even a family weekend getaway, you become a team. You get to know each other again in a new way, you learn to depend upon each other, you each learn to appreciate the other in a new way which makes coping with the things that drive us nuts about our family members that much easier! This strengthens your family bond in a truly amazing way.

5^th Reason to Travel With Your Children

The Memories. The memories that you will make on your family adventures will last a lifetime. Your children will grow loving to look at cherished photos of themselves on family trips and remember those special times. That hogwash that young children won’t remember is baloney. In their 20’s they may not remember every trip they took before the age of 10, but it will have shaped who they are today.

They will ♥ the photos of those trips & YOU will enjoy remembering 4 both of u! http://t.co/OIJUGMj9sJ #familytravel #familytravelforum

— Malibu Mama Loves (@MalibuMamaLoves) November 15, 2014

6^th Reason to Travel With Your Children

Teaches life skills. You have to admit our American way of life is pretty easy. We are very fortunate to have access to things like slide on shoes for kids, Netflix, enormous super markets and video games that no longer require controls even! It is easy to not have to learn to tie your shoes or entertain yourself anymore or even how to properly feed yourself! Travel teaches all of this and more. When you travel with your children they learn what they actually need to survive in this world. They learn how to pack, how to be on time for planes, trains or boats. They learn how to handle the little bumps in the road that we all encounter at some point in time. They learn how to entertain themselves without a room full of toys or electronics. You will all learn better coping skills on not only dealing with each other but in dealing with any situation that comes along.

I hope by now I have gotten you thinking about taking a trip with your little ones.

On Thursday I asked you to think about a special place you have always wanted to #travel to. Share them here in the comments today and let’s start googling about that location and see what kind of deals are being offered! You will be so surprised by what you find!

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Malibu Mama Loves Xx

Updates:

Part 3

Part 4