6 advantages of traveling with children for the whole family

Traveling is dreaming, it is letting the imagination fly and nothing like a child for that ... Some people think that travel with children (beyond the beach and a hotel with all kinds of activities to keep them entertained) is the closest thing to torture because children will not appreciate the destination, or take advantage of the money invested ...

Wasted time and money? However, it is the best money invested. Traveling with children It can be quite an experience, an adventure greater than we could hope for. Traveling with children it is discovering the destinations twice: first through our adult eyes and then through their childish gaze, more curious and innocent, and certainly more flexible than ours.


A trip is a discovery for children, and an opportunity for parents to accompany them in their personal growth, sharing the experience with them hand in hand, helping them, encouraging them, answering their questions. Why wait until they are older and fly by themselves so that they live far away from us? Why miss that beautiful ride?

It does not matter if the trip is here next, or on the other side of the world. The important thing is to open your eyes to new experiences. The essence is to travel together new paths, enjoying that childish authenticity.

6 advantages of traveling with children that you can not miss


If you are one of those who still doubt, and want to know how to survive a trip with children, here are a few advantages to finish convincing you:

1. The contact with other cultures and different forms of life. It is a way to develop empathy and tolerance. The discovery of cultures alien to ours, of other races, ways of dressing, types of home and transport ... is to open their world, helping them to become more tolerant adults thanks to cultural trips.

2. Travel at another pace, at your own pace. Because children require another rhythm of travel, more relaxed, they need their rest times, and a few hours of adequate sleep, especially when they are consuming so much energy. They need to make more stops, or spend more time in a place, because anything will stop them awakening their curiosity, it will allow adults to enjoy their destiny more intensely. It is not a matter of doing many things in the shortest time possible, but to squeeze the moments to the fullest, and the children of the house know a lot about it.


3. Greater flexibility. Breaking with routines for a while is good for children. Get used to sleeping in different beds, try other foods and drinks ... We often overprotect those changes in routine to children, when the good thing is that they lose that fear to get out of the routine from very small. The routine is good, but the fear of change is not. And traveling means changing places, changing everything known for novelties, neither worse nor better, just different. Play other games and learn to live without television or computer, simply to spend more time with people, and especially with siblings and parents.

4. Practice patience and remove the disgust. Vueljar involves making queues to see museums, monuments or even amusement parks. It is no longer what I want when I want! ... it will already touch us. Not to mention the food: traveling you have to try other foods yes or yes. Explore different dishes and flavors. And discovering new ingredients and ways to eat them can be very exciting. The trip will expand your palate with a host of flavors, and will take away a lot of nonsense with meals.

5. Continuous learning. Without a doubt, a trip can be the best summer school. Beginning with languages, traveling is the best way to accustom the ear to other languages, helps to lose fears and embarrassments, and to practice what they learn in a boring lesson at school. It is also a great lesson in geography and history, perhaps the best. We already know that photographic memory is important, and that with experience you learn better. Traveling one associates places, stories and anecdotes of the moment lived, all in one, something hard to forget for life. And sometimes we will even learn more thanks to them, the children have no shame, and they will lose the shame of talking to strangers more quickly than we do, and they will launch their direct and authentic questions, giving us the knowledge of secrets ... and above all a different point of view.

6. Learn to respect nature and our planet. Knowing the most exotic and wild animals and their natural habitats will leave a mark. They will understand the importance of nature for the subsistence of these animals, and of humanity. They will see that the pictures that our planet gives are better than any we can see on the iPad, Facebook or Instagram. Nothing like a beautiful sunset swayed by the sea breeze, accompanied by local music, or by the captivating sounds of the jungle.Learn that sometimes the simplest things can be the most beautiful and that they are free.

Almudena Teulón Guerra. Traveler and travel designer of Mint57

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