Travel has a way of expanding and stretching, not just our worldview, writes parenting columnist Amil Niazi, but also our ability to overcome challenges and deal with stuff that’s hard and unexpected. For kids, it’s a game changer.
When I was 13, my mom took me to Connecticut to visit family for the summer. We rode the Amtrak from Toronto to New York and then drove the rest of the way. On the train over, while I was gorging on tiny pizzas in the bar cart, I saw the most glamorous woman. She was dressed entirely in white,a deep blood red.
A few years ago, we left London, where my husband and I lived for two years, when I became pregnant with our second child. We loved the city and it was hard to leave; we’d frequently talk eagerly about returning with the kids one day, especially our oldest, who spent his first years in the city. I heard my son asking another kid where he was from. It struck me because I’d never heard him initiate an exchange like that with a stranger. When I went back a little later to tell the kids to get ready to leave, my son and this kid begged me to let them play a little longer. They’d become fast friends, and I was so happy for him that we lingered a lot longer than we’d planned.
In just a few days out of our usual routine, my son had found the kind of self-confidence I thought might take another couple of years to build.
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