Children simply like to be with their parents. Travel is not the crucial factor here. It’s being together in an intentional way that creates the joy. It’s being together as the end goal and not a byproduct.
Of course, I’m talking about normal families which are a huge majority. I hated family vacations as a child because there was no break from the dysfunction. Thankfully for me, in the USSR husbands and wives were rarely given vacations at the same time.
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I’ve said before, I was from a very large family with very little money. Never went on a single childhood vacation. No one in our neighborhood did. That was something you only saw on TV or movies. We didn’t “do” much with our parents back then, they were busy. We lived in a kids world of what today would be thought of as shocking independence and freedom. But we always knew that Mom was holding down the fort and Dad was bringing home the bread. That gave us a rock solid sense of stability. Were we deluded? Yeah, thank God.
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