If I were a millionaire, I’d take my kids out of school, my husband out of work, and we’d be travelers. I always say that when asked 0 unattainable dreams. Travel runs in my blood. Adventure, discovery, getting to know new cultures, a multitude of languages that I would like to learn. Learning geography, history, culture. Last year, my family visited five countries. Slovakia, Germany, Mallorca, France and Tenerife. I know, it’s actually four countries. Each of these trips is in the children’s hearts and they remember very often. This year we plan to have 10 of these countries! In the end, the whole family will also dare to fly further. To the areas where I have been before, but for the children and your Dad they are unknown. The kids were betting on Dubai and the Maldives.
More than a school
Travel transforms children. Each trip makes them more mature, wiser and more intelligent, more than it would be after six months at school. The whole process of traveling is one big lesson in geography, physics, mathematics, linguistics, biology and more. Science in its purest and most digestible form. You learn about the volcano by walking on its borders, picking up stones from lava and playing in the volcanic dust. About the ebb and flow of ebbs and flows, standing ankle-deep in water. Today the beach is by the shore, and tomorrow a dozen or so meters away. You get to know animals by observing or petting them. Some can be fed because they only eat plants, while others are locked in a cage. Feel the touch of a trunk on your hand, or be licked by a giraffe and its super – long tongue, priceless!
You learn about the effect of speed on mass and gravity during each flight. Because how come a plane goes up and doesn’t fall. Every kilometre of the road is counted accurately. How much to take home? How much to the destination? The children ask questions all the time, delighted with the new. A change from home, school. They absorb every minute and remember this practical knowledge for a long time. forever.
Tolerance
This aspect is particularly important for a little Pole. Beyond the borders of our country, towards the west and north, the mixture of cultures is sucked with mother’s milk. In our country, it’s more like xenophobia. That’s why every trip showing that somewhere out there is a life, people look different is richer than learning the multiplication table. Recently, I did a test with my daughter. I showed her a sticker box with three Disney princesses (one was dark-skinned) and asked her to tell me the difference. “Dresses!” Hair! Earrings, crowns, hair… Everything was said except the color of the skin, even though I asked fiercely.
Didn’t she notice that fact? Didn’t she think it was important? I do not know. From infancy, it changes its surroundings to colorful several times a year. She is not impressed. He sees people. She admires their braids or ornate outfits.
Ability to cope with different situations
An absolutely priceless topic. Especially when you happen to go on a trip where one parent does not have documents. Think of how much you can learn from such a lesson. About the fact that you have to prepare thoroughly for the journey at that time. That you can cry and be sad and be separated for a while, but still love each other more than anything in the world. Sacrifice yourself for the sake of your loved ones and send them on vacation alone to have fun. You can also book a ticket and fly. So no drama, every trip is a practical lesson of life in the 21st century. How to behave on a plane, how to buy a bus ticket in another country, ask for directions, or convert zlotys into euros. I used to write you such a text, now I can’t find it, that my main shock or delight was the fact that the American kids I watched 10 years ago are so… familiar with the Polish ones.
A go-getter! Oh, that’s a good word. Now I know that this is due to the unlimited possibilities of acquiring knowledge more practically. From traveling, going to different places, attending interesting classes, not necessarily connected strictly with learning. I started thinking, recalling the facts, and I remembered that my American children… they didn’t play games! At all! And I was watching over both 4 and 10-year-olds. They had so many interesting options – a swimming pool behind the house, horse riding lessons + pony grooming, gymnastics classes and every 2 weekends trips or longer trips. Games are probably a substitute for attractions, fun, adventures that do not exist in real life. Travel is definitely better than games!