Top Benefits of Travelling for Children

Top Benefits of Travelling for Children

By Oluwatoyin Ajayi

 Most children are always excited about travelling. They love to explore and see new things. No matter how big or small it is, vacations hold immense benefits for children psychologically, mentally, socially and even physically. Below are list of benefits of travel for kids:

1. Patience: Children learn patience through travelling.

The thing is, children are basically quite impatient by nature and expect things to happen as soon as they demand it. Travelling can bring unexpected delays. There might be a number of occasions when you may have nothing to do but wait if your flight or mode of travel is delayed. Long bus rides, waiting in queues and boarding, all take up quite a lot of time. Thus, the child will learn patience through travelling.

2. Independence and Responsibility: Travelling teach the child Independence and Responsibility.

Children learn to become more responsible while travelling and this is indeed a huge lesson as far as kids are concerned. You can teach them to be responsible for their belongings and make sure they pack their necessities, teaching them the importance of responsibility.

3. Cultural Awareness: Children becomes culturally aware of their new environment.

As Travel opens your children’s eyes to novel windows of the world. They get excellent exposure to varied languages and culture. The child gets to know how different people across the globe live and their different values. They learn about new languages, history, people, cuisines and cultures. You can even include some educational activities as per their interests

4. Family Bond: The family ties become stronger 

Learning together about different places and people as a group, becomes so much more fulfilling and enriching for both parents as well as the children. Travelling teaches you so many new things which can be learned as a group rather than individually. But, what you should remember is that travelling is a lovely experience that provides you with wonderful memories. You and your child can cherish these memories for a lifetime. You realize you bring back a lot more than pictures and souvenirs when you travel with your little children, strengthening your family ties, bringing you closer than before. 

5. Learning: Travelling enhances your children’s learning experiences.

Travel offers your kids real-world experiences and even applications to some subjects they have been learning in school. Visiting a history museum or a world-famous art gallery provides your child with substance and rich perspectives to what your child has learned in his or her class. This, likewise improves child's intelligent and grades. 

6.  Memories: Travelling focuses on collecting wonderful memories.

Children learn the value of accumulating memories of lovely times they spent travelling as a family. They learn that life is about gathering rich experiences and memories as they will last to the very end of their lives. Travelling ensures that you bring back lots of wonderful moments.

7. Healthy Self-Esteem: Travelling helps children learn to socialize and make friends easily.

They learn to socialize better with strangers and even share smiles and stories with new acquaintances. This is quite a valuable lesson which teaches them about what really matters is celebrating life with smiles and laughter. In turn helps to develop healthy self esteem.

8. Tolerance and Good Habits: Kids learn how to be tolerant and adopt better habits.

Kids learn acceptance and tolerance during their various travels, which makes it so much easier for their parents to handle them. Children also realize the importance of doing some things by their self such as cleaning up and packing their backpacks.

9. Children learn how to adapt while travelling

There may be umpteen situations during travel where kids need to adapt to different situations without complaining. Be it unexpected weather set back or a flight getting delayed, kids learn to adjust accordingly as they have no other choice

10. Decision-making: Children become excellent in group decision-making skills.

While in daily life, children’s opinions are not paid much heed to, but normally listen or pay heed during vacation. Travelling helps to provide children a wonderful platform to voice their opinions, as the family takes decisions. This serves or offers such child a lovely opportunity to contribute his/her thoughts and ideas about certain things.