We are the same. All of us. Our desires. Our fears. We love our children. We worry for them. We want them safe at all times. And sometimes that desire to protect becomes so overwhelming that we forget that on the other side of the world there is a mother trying to do exactly the same with a completely opposite package of information or access.
The news is grim. Fear of travel is high. There are bad people out there. You should still go.
And then she danced and I felt her happiness.
There are some key things you can do to make your next family road trip your best ever.
It can't be predicted. We'll be somewhere acting perfectly normal and then I'll just look over at them and my heart will fill with so much love for the kids, the family, the moment... and whammo, blammo, we're taking a "Welfie."
How are your resolutions doing? Yup, I hear you. How about a do-over?
The fine against this family irks me if only for the fact that at its core, a rule/law that suggests that a parent can't take their child out of school is an affront to my rights to parent.
Just because the world tour is over doesn't mean the adventures are at an end. This video shares just a few highlights from our 2013 adventures.
My responsibility to my children, as I see it, isn't to push them along the path that we've been told is the only path available but to equip them with the tools that will make for fulfilling lives. I don't want my kids to have a high school diploma, a university degree or a big house in a good neighbourhood unless they want those things for themselves.