Get in your car and travel - show your kids how big the world is

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As a parent it is your duty to show your chidlren the scope of the world. There is nothing stopping you. Assemble your documents and set out. Cross the international border of the United States into Mexico or Canada. Ram into your child's brain how vast the world is. I've done this. You should do this too. I actually received a complaint about Pennsylvania. Why is it so big?! Months later at school the little scion looked at a Canadian flag and said "I went there!"

Because they did. We went to Canada and I made a little 7 year old walk around Montreal and look at the drunk and drugged immigrants. Needless to say the moment we went over the thousand island bridge into the USA I received the most fervent "I am an American" from the back seat I have heard.
 
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i never had many opportunities to travel and see the world as a child, even locally around my home country, and its something i look back on with a lot of regret and that i wished i had the same opportunities as other kids. i never learnt about the world beyond the tv, was never taught to read a map, and these things have impacted me in my adult life. i knew i was worse off than other kids and didnt understand the world fully like other kids my age did. i never saw italy, or spain, or any cultural and historic sites that meant something, not even locally, because either my parents couldn't afford it or simply didnt have the time to.

please invest in broadening your children's horizons and concepts of the world, even if its locally done if you're low income. it does such a world of good. now that i'm an adult and i have access to big girl money, i'm saving for a week long exploration of europe using its rail network, and visiting cultural landmarks and museums. it sounds really dorky, but i'm really excited about it. :)
 
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The masculine urge to be a father who gets up at 2AM to pick up their drunk teen kid at a party is the only reason I haven't killed myself.
 
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mindlessobserver said:
We went to Canada and I made a little 7 year old walk around Montreal and look at the drunk and drugged immigrants. Needless to say the moment we went over the thousand island bridge into the USA I received the most fervent "I am an American" from the back seat I have heard.
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Does your kid know about LA? Or Oakland? Or our million other domestic shitholes?
 
Abso-lutely. My parents took me on a road trip every year to family across the country. Got to see the world outside of my extremely shitty hometown, and realized there is more out there. It completely changes your worldview as a child and an adult. I grew up alongside friends who never left my hometown and never had an idea of the ease of travel and access to a better life, so they are still stuck there while I took the risk and ventured out of Shithole, USA.

You also get the chance to meet people in different areas than you, rural meets metro and vice versa. Therefore, when my shitlib friends would preach about "dumb hicks" in rural areas, I had real life experience with them to contrast and pop my idea bubble. You realize rural people are not dumb, they are intelligently navigating life and voting for people who represent their interests. Anyways, travel rules and should be a requirement for adulthood in our culture (pipe dream).
 
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Might be worth it to show em lol
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It is. My dad would drive me through trailer parks when I was young to point out all the rusted trailers and trash in the yards. When I was like 14, he drove the whole family through Gary on one vacation because I asked him if it was really as bad as they say. It's incredibly educational. I still love seeing some of these shitholes. Visiting Portland was a wonderful experience since it was like visiting Eastern Europe but with the kindly Slavs replaced with strange whitoid junkies and degenerates.
 
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