Taking the children with you on holiday – archive, 20 August 1954

20 August 1954 Some parents may want to leave their children at home but Kathleen Denbigh believes in establishing the habit of family travel early

Whether it is a question of a holiday or a non-holiday visit abroad, parents often ask themselves: “Is it worth while taking the children with us?” I agree it is not always easy to weigh such tangible factors as extra expense and trouble (both, alas. inevitables) against the less tangible benefits of “travel experience” to one’s offspring. A negative decision may, in fact, seem safer to make than a positive one; at least it will carry with it the support of those who firmly maintain that “children forget it all so easily.”

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