How Travelling With Your Kids Can Improve Their Education

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How Travelling With Your Kids Can Improve Their
Education
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• Its a common misconception that our kids
  educational capacities become somewhat stunted
  over the summer vacation, and that taking them
  away with us provides them merely with a happy
  escape from school, and thats it. But as it so
  happens, the reality may be completely different,
  with research showing that kids who travel with
  their families, often show improved cognitive
  growth compared to those kids who dont vacation.
• How year-round programs may not be in your
  childs best interests
• Many schools across the country have begun
  operating year-round programs,

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• and while it may seem that this prevents them
  from having to catch up on what they might have
  missed over theirvacation period, this may well
  not be the case. Many researchers looking into
  the benefits of vacationing with kids, have shown
  us that family travel can, and should, be a
  valuable part of a childs overall education, and
  can promote healthy cognitive growth and
  encourage them to be more curious about the world
  around them. Kids minds are like sponges, ready
  to soak up an incredible amount of information,
  and family vacations provide them with the
  perfect opportunity to broaden their horizons and
  make their growing minds even more open to
  learning.

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• Making your summer vacation fun and educational
• While its important that your child is given the
  opportunity to unwind and relax while on vacation
  as after all, school can be stressful for kids
  if youre able to combine that with an
  educational component, so much the better.
• Some of the ways in which you can achieve this
  are as simple as visiting museums or sites of
  historic interest while on vacation, enrolling
  your child in one of the many enrichment programs
  that resorts offer for their guests, or spending
  a couple of days visiting national parks to help
  them learn more about wildlife and the natural
  environment.

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• Youll find that your kids will become even more
  willing to learn once they are out of the school
  environment and with their loved ones, and you
  will not have to worry about the trip becoming
  boring, especially if the whole family get into
  the spirit of learning and embrace the
  opportunity.
• The benefits of vacationing with your kids
• Research over the years has shown that there is
  clear and significant evidence of a link between
  kids that vacation with their families, and
  improved academic achievements at school. Here
  are just a few examples of this from the recent
  studies

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• Higher academic scores were achieved on tests
  conducted in schools, among those children who
  had taken a recent vacation with their family.
  Those who had remained at home, did not score so
  highly.
• The duration of the vacation period had a
  positive impact upon the childs academic
  achievements
• Kids who had spent time visiting museums, sites
  of historical interest and other interactive
  places, performed better in tests than those kids
  who had spent their time at home.

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• The results speak for themselves, and are
  unanimous in proving that travelling with your
  kids can improve their education.
• So, what are you waiting for? Start planning your
  educational vacation with your kids now and watch
  as they astound you with their capacity to learn
  and better themselves! The trip doesnt even have
  to cost a lot, provided you expose them to new
  environments and encourage their thirst for
  learning, you can help to educate your kids on a
  budget, or splash out and give them a fun and
  educational trip that theyll never forget.

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