For most children, the hardest thing to learn is how to be organized. At that age, organisation is just something that holds you back from having fun. “Homework? I will do it later!” You know the drill. Keeping all of a child’s thoughts on one thing is like herding sheep. And trying to make them [...]
When you are young, you do not realise the value of good memories because you have not yet built up a strong bank of fond recollections. You are more interested in the here and now than the things that happened last week or even yesterday. The unfortunate thing about this is that, as time goes [...]
Often the most expensive part of a holiday is not the tickets for the plane that gets you there, nor the charge for the hotel room once you arrive, but the other things that you fork out for while you are there. A meal here, a souvenir there, and even if you are simply holidaying [...]
One of the things that catch a child’s attention - almost as soon as they are capable of grasping simple concepts - is technology. There are few children who do not wonder, early on, how those people get inside the TV. This often leads to scary but retrospectively amusing incidents involving a child trying to [...]
When you were young, did you enjoy every family holiday? Chances are that you did not. Due to the fact that adults tend to make the decisions, the family holiday will often be to a destination that has been chosen by the parents, and the “children’s activities” are something of an afterthought. This is not [...]