We recently explored the best age to take kids on extended trips and readers weighed in with their own experiences. Here's some of what they had to say.
Kaye Cameron lives in Naarm/Melbourne and in 1999 set off to live in the UK for a year. She was in her thirties and her two daughters were six and eight when they relocated with her husband.On a three-month summer break, they "did a huge car trip all around Europe ".The children "were small enough to share a bed if needed, didn't need their friends back home and just loved everything we did.
Kaye warns "it's not actually the parents tour when you go on a family trip, it needs to be the kids tour."Despite their efforts to keep her awake for the experience, Kaye's younger daughter also napped for an entire venetian gondola ride.Jo O'Byrne and her family took four months off in 2013, to do two laps of Australia and says she would "linger a little bit longer" if she was to do it again.
They used savings to fund the trip and the sale of the house from the year before did provide "padding". But she says it was the "best time of our lives and theirs. Worth every cent and challenge we faced."Penny McBride lives on Gadigal land in Sydney, and in 2010 she relocated to the UK with her husband and two daughters. They were enrolled in school in the UK for two years before the family embarked on a nine-month adventure, when the girls were aged six and eight.Here's what you should consider before embarking on an extended adventure with the kids, experts say.
Penny says on returning to Sydney, her daughters were "accepting of all different types of people", had a better understanding of different cultures and were more sociable.'I won't say every day was perfect'"Our daughter turned 10 just before we left, and our son turned nine two-thirds of the way through the trip."
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