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Traveling with kids offers a superior education compared to a classroom
5 lessons from our 23-day Italian odyssey
Traveling with children is often seen as a challenging endeavour, yet it presents unparalleled opportunities for learning and growth, far surpassing the confines of a traditional classroom. This post explores my top five reasons why traveling with your kids can be more educational than traditional schooling, illustrated through a personal account of our 23-day trip to Italy in 2017. This was a time coinciding with the peak of the European migrant crisis. While travelling with young kids can have its own stressors, it seems to be a growing necessity to counter the lack of a well-rounded education of a bygone era.
Many years ago, I had the opportunity to work as an Intern on a film Production for the History Channel and Bravo Canadian productions. This film was an attempt to recreate the journey of Canadian soldiers during Christmas World War II
That term, I took a month off from the Masters program I was completing at the time, with special permission from my program (remote school was not a thing then.) I would have to produce some work…
