A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ~ John B. Priestly ~ [Source]
Family holidays can be as easy as ABC or as difficult as you try your best to accommodate to everyone’s schedule. With young children, you needn’t worry about the schedule. You worry about if they will get carsick en route to another state or airsick during a long flight.
Driving from Singapore to Malaysia’s Genting Highlands can be a challenge when young children are carsick and you need to take 10 minutes break after every or two hour. The drive to the customs can take as long as an hour due to the long queue.
Taking the aeroplane for the first time can be daunting since young children have short attention spans. They need changes to the games or are unable to sleep during the flight especially if it’s more than five hours. Parents have to think of various travelling games beforehand and use them to entertain the kids.
As the years go by, planning family holidays take its toil as the children have their own friends to spend the time with. They prefer going out with people their age rather than with the family. A friend once visited Taiwan for the first time with the family but returned home unhappy with the trip. It was a packaged tour that the family insisted despite their familiarity with the language.
photo credit: Leonard John Matthews
Perhaps, family holidays can be boring when going to a place with the family members you see on a daily basis. What if one day, they cease to be on a daily basis?
What are the challenges you face while planning for family holidays?
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