15 Steps to Raising a Good Traveler
>> 7 Creative Ways to Preserve Family Travel Memories >> 11 travel safety tips for parents A collection of 15 family travel tips for raising a good traveler. 1. Buy a globe or world map When my daughter was 2 or 3 we got her a globe for her playroom. I like globes even better than maps because they are much more tactile, especially if you get one that has topographical maps that show the bumps and ridges of mountain ranges. Whenever my husband or other relatives would travel, I would point out where on the globe they were. We would track a path with our finger from where we lived to where our loved ones lived or visited. I would point out where I’ve been and where we’d like to go. And later, as we learned about new places, whether it was from watching the Little Einsteins or reading books, we’d go back to the globe and find those places. In addition to the globe, we also liked playing with one of those giant Melissa and Doug floor puzzles of the United States. Later...