Building Kids' Confidence Through Travel

Best way to build your kids’ confidence? Travel! 🌎✈️🧳 🛑If you hover… If you don’t cut the cord… If you don’t let the kids have growth opportunities, they can’t grow. And they’re so proud of themselves when they do.🌟 🔹Put all family members in charge of packing and managing their own luggage. 🔹Involve the kids in trip planning and costs for your next family vacation. 🔹Let them sit next to the stranger in the airplane. 🔹Take them to the big cities and foreign destinations. 🔹Let them figure out the subway map and lead the family through the stops. 🔹Model how to be aware of their surroundings and safety risks. 🔹Show them not to be afraid of the homeless (or weird or fancy or or or…) people downtown. 🔹Make them go to the hotel desk and ask for the extra pillow. 🔹Send them to get the hotel breakfast on their own. (With rules😉) 🔹Push them to order their own food at restaurants. And use all of these as opportunities to talk about safety and risks. Send them with a phone if needed. 🛑But…They shouldn’t fear the unknown. (And neither should you.) 👉👉Reaching adulthood with life skills is way more important than calculating angles on a worksheet. 😉 . . . . 📸11/22; DC metro after the 9/11 Memorial at the Pentagon . . .