Traveling worries March 21, 2007
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We are getting our travel stuff together for our trip to Hawai’i. Yes, the American Astronomical Society is having their summer meeting in Hawai’i. It is on Oahu, not my favorite island, but hey, it’s HAWAI’I! My parents are coming. This is good. I am helping the director’s office by helping man our booth. That is cool. I will have a few set hours to work and then I can pick what talks I want to see, which posters I wish to see and then I can also spend time with the girls.
Ah… that will be nice.
In some senses, our girls are spoiled. We are so lucky to travel so much. Imagine going to Hawai’i twice before you turn 3. That is Luna.
When I grew up, we went to Disney once. I remember, vaguely, a trip to Chicago. I barely remember it so I often don’t count Illinois as a state I visited although we stayed for 2 weeks.
So far, my girls have been to Buffalo, NYC, Cleveland, Baltimore, Seattle(Soleil only), Florida(Orlando), The Great Smokeys (NC- Soleil), Atlanta, Hawai’i. There are plenty of places we have been.
We have been on planes with the girls often. We travel often in cars. Wow, we have been everywhere and we are now planning bigger trips, to Sicily for example for Jay to work with some collaborators.
Is this spoiling them? We already talk about how we help others out. We discuss Tzdaka- The sharing of our money with others. We try to explain how lucky we are to get to travel this much. I just hope we can really get them to understand how lucky they really are….
Now, if you are a parent, get yourself over to JenEx’s place and check out this post….
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The best role models for appreciating what they’ve got is you and Dr. Jay. Don’t worry, they won’t be spoiled!
jenX’s post. wow. You know, Gordon Neufeld (www.gordonneufeld.com) has alot to say on this subject. Definitely worth a read for anyone concerned about peer pressure and bullying issues.
I don’t think it is spoiling in the least. Travel is such a great experience and like you my travel experience was limited when I was a child. My daughter Leah has been to Toronto, Montreal twice, Hong Kong, Hawaii three times, Washington DC a number of times and soon will be on a plane to Jamaica. We will probably be taking her to China also once our referral comes. Not too bad for a five year old!
One of my goals as a parent is to expose my children to lots of different experiences - traveling fits the bill (except for Jamaica, where we will be sitting at the pool all day)!
I can’t wait to bring my daughter to Europe one day.
I think that you really can judge people by the way they comment different stuff. Some people, even expressing negative thoughts, are still polite and they respect and understand other people. Some people are not even trying to be nice, they just don’t care. I think self-confident person will always act nice, no matter what other people do