How do parents and children feel after traveling?

Parents should take their children to travel.

Go to a strange place every year. This is a requirement for yourself and a plan. This habit seems to have existed since childhood and has continued until now. To this day, I take my children to a strange place every year. For me, learning to travel has become a tradition, and its significance lies in my own growth.

"Knowing the whole world" is undoubtedly the internal motivation of every traveler.

The world is getting smaller and smaller, and we are dealing with strangers almost every day. We are all familiar with all kinds of firsts. The world children live in has become a family. Technology blurs our nationality, makes communication faster, and forces us to adapt to various changeable social environments. Therefore, children's future must be working and living with people from different countries and different cultural backgrounds, so understanding the whole world has become a compulsory course for them. Not long ago, among the four skills of 2 1 century talents just promulgated by the "American New Labor Skills Committee" composed of education and business leaders, "knowing the whole world" was listed as the first standard.

There are so many contents in the world that we need to be familiar with and explore, which are definitely not limited to learning other countries' languages. Language is just a tool, more important than it is to learn strange culture and history, and the humanities and life of other countries. So, I tasted the delicacies of other countries with my children; Familiar with traffic routes and public signs; Appreciate different forms of architecture; Experience different kinds of religious phenomena; Experience getting along with strangers; Adapt to various climatic conditions; Even different smells in the air.

When you go to a strange place, you will always hear children say such things. This is different from ours. Just like this, you will always compare what is good and what is not. In this comparison, we have broadened our horizons, expanded our pores and broadened our minds.

When we see a bigger world, we can be more tolerant and open-minded. In fact, accepting and respecting each other's differences has become the focus of "understanding the world".

The way to know the world is to improve everyone's overall ability.

There are many ways to learn about the world. Chatting with others through books and video materials can help us learn about the world, but none is more important than immersion learning. The ancients said: Reading thousands of books is not as good as reading Wan Li Road, and reading Wan Li Road is not as good as reading countless people. And our consistent practice is "read thousands of books before Wan Li Road, read countless people on Wan Li Road, and think back after Wan Li Road."

Every time we go to a strange country, we will have a week-long training with our children, including language, culture, customs, photography skills and so on. I was deeply impressed that the children started reading related books one month before going to Italy, and gained a basic understanding of the Renaissance during the training process. They also shared the mystery of the Louvre and the legend of Napoleon with the children. Simple language training allows children to simply go through customs and find their own direction, while local bus administrative signs weaken their strangeness.

After arriving in a strange country, children began to verify whether the information they had learned before was consistent with everything in front of them, began to walk in strange cities with familiar tools, began to collide and communicate with local people and things, and began to need local people's help to complete the tasks we planned in advance. In a strange city, you must integrate into their real society. I still remember that they used the subway bus for free in Munich; When they changed trains from Berlin to Cologne Railway Station, they were busy and orderly. The calligraphy of Maria Square attracted foreigners' onlookers; Run between the fountains in Rome to complete the urban task; Playing football with foreign children on the lawn in Fei Sen. Only by giving them full and free contact with this society, fully mobilizing their communication skills and strengthening teamwork in the process of communication can they really improve themselves. Children need to get in touch with the local people, and more importantly, they should live according to the local people's way, use their transportation and visit the museums they often go to. They don't just browse there, but stay there and enjoy it seriously. Just like we stayed in the Louvre for three days, compared with the photography work of the Louvre in the tour group, how free we are. In the evening, we play games on the lawn in front of the Eiffel Tower. After seeing the lights of this magnificent iron building at night, we staggered onto the subway and sat in a youth hostel in Paris under the night lights.

In the days when I take my children "wandering abroad", someone will always ask, "Are you Korean? Japanese? "

Because, in their eyes, China people travel by bus, and children are always learning languages. When our children proudly answered "I'm from China", I thought not only about going abroad for the sake of "language", but also about the diversity of children's growth opportunities and the changes of parents' thoughts at home.