Originally posted by zurgswife
for me it boils down strictly to having fun as a family.....Not slower times or such
Exhibit "A" of the textbook "good" family gospel I described earlier. The fact the parks are less crowded and less expensive in the off season periods couldn't possibly have
anything to do with why the "good" families always happen to go then.
No, it's
always just a coincidence.....the only agenda is
always solely the God-motherhood-apple pie "fun as a family" thing!
Originally posted by gina2000
Some things should be experienced outside of a classroom.
I wholeheartedly agree.
I celebrated my 9th birthday at the Chateaux du Chillon in Montreux, Switzerland. Beat any event I could have had in class.
Two years earlier, I personally met Clyde Beatty after his performance under the big top in Kansas City, Mo. That would have never happened in school.
At age 12, I rode a bicycyle with my father and brothers UP Mount Haleakala in Maui, and we spent the night at the peak (back in the era when the National Park Service still let people do that). Beat anything I ever did in geography class.
Earlier (at age eight), I crossed that Atlantic from New York To LeHarve, France as a first class passenger on the S.S.
France, and returned a year later (from Genoa, Italy to New York) on the S.S.
Michelangelo of the Italian line. Reading about the grand Atlantic liner era in history class would have been a poor substitute for both of those experiences.
As a teen, I spent three weeks working on a dairy farm outside Gronigen, Holland (with a family that spoke no english whatsoever). Saw a side of life no textbook could ever cover.
One note about all of the above:
All were experienced during periods when school was not in session.
Or stated differently, implying that full, regular attendance at school is stifiling, somehow inevitably limiting a child's exposure to the dynamics of a larger world is...shall we say...a complete pile of hooey.
