Let’s start with why many parents are reluctant to take their children on trips. The reasons are very straightforward, there are probably the following: 1, can not remember. Children are too small, see what can not remember, go to also go, a waste of money and energy, wait for them to grow up; 2, dangerous. Children love to go out sick, in the unfamiliar place is not safe, eat not used to play bad; 3, trouble. Go out with a lot of children’s things, adults have to take care of the child, too tired to play with the child, not enjoyable. Then we’ll see if these reasons are tenable. The first one: “go for nothing” is the most common argument Not only the older generation of parents, but also many of my young friends around me, also have the same idea. But, like the core problem of Chinese homeschooling, these are the thoughts of parents, not the feelings and needs of their children. I am especially afraid of parents’ “usefulness” theory. For example, playing piano is useful, playing sand is useless, learning hockey is useful, hide-and-seek is useless, tutorial classes are useful, playing house is useless, playing Go is useful, playing blocks is useless …… along the lines of the theory of usefulness, travel, is blind play, not only can not get a grade, nor a certificate, not only can not add points, nor can be considered a specialty. Also can not be considered a specialty, of course, is useless, it is not worth spending time and energy. In the process of growing up, children’s knowledge of language, mathematics and English, piano, art and gymnastics skills, these are hard work; character, sentiment, vision, psychology, etc., is the soft power. Just like a computer, the hardware is important, but the core competitiveness is actually the software. Soft power, is the most important, the most core, the most can affect the development, the most can create a happy life of key factors. There is this paragraph, that there is a good family, good character and academic excellence of young men, after graduating from college, stay in the hometown to work. After a few years, he would like to go to the south, but repeatedly can not make the trip. Later, I heard that the biggest reason he did not dare to go to the south, it turned out that he had never left his hometown and was afraid to take the train alone. I don’t want to say absolutely that his fate was confined by not traveling as a child. However, if he had traveled, at least he would not be afraid to take the train, not afraid of the unfamiliar environment, not because of the fear of the psychological, lost the courage to change their lives. In the past few years I have traveled extensively and often watched some Europeans and Americans traveling abroad with their families. The mother and two older children walking in front, the father leading a child in his hands, and holding a baby in his arms. You may not understand again, the baby also brought him out to do what. In fact, babies can feel the change of environment, the change of air, the change of diet, the change of family atmosphere, etc. These changes play a good role in paving the way for the future to enhance the child’s ability to adapt. Often parents say wait until the child is older, how old is older? The second: the reason for bothering parents, danger Travel, there will be accidents, there are risks. There will be meals you’re not used to eating, shuttles you can’t wait for, bumps and bruises, even illnesses and stitches …… but isn’t that what travel is all about? Don’t we want to make our children stronger, don’t we want them to be able to handle difficulties, don’t we want them to grow up in maturity? Travel, is such an irreplaceable growth course. Almost all parents, after traveling with their children, will find that within a short period of time, the child has changed a lot – this, that is the charm and magic of travel. Of course, there are some children who are slightly more capable of taking care of themselves, so mom and dad can let their children leave their parents and go on a trip in a group setting. There is something completely different about being in a group. Finally, parents who are too much trouble, I would like to say that travel is the best time to strengthen family cohesion. Usually, work is busy and moody, and there is no time for family and children. And how sweet and pleasant it is to have a complete time with your family now, without the ties of work. Of course, if in the middle of the trip, but also constantly check the e-mail back, open a conference call to send a weibo, it will indeed be too much child trouble, too much child annoyance. It shows that the problem with family travel is the adults, not the children. It is the mindset and practices of parents that need to be changed. The third: the reason for not wanting to travel with children, analysis here. Next, let’s talk about the benefits of traveling with children, where exactly and how great it really is. I think that it can be divided into three lessons Lesson 1: Diverse Values Lesson I know that when it comes to the benefits of travel, many people will mention that exercising children’s independence, autonomy, learning about multiple cultures and so on. Indeed, these are all benefits of traveling with children. But what I want to talk about is something else. That is the establishment of the child’s multiple values. In my opinion, there is a particularly big enemy that we need to eliminate in our life. Its name is “narrow-mindedness”. Narrow-mindedness, for a country, will cause a closed country; for a nation, will cause the night; for a person, will cause self-righteousness. The result of these three levels is backwardness, arrogance, and ignorance. Remember Lu Xun in the portrait of the country’s “A Q Zhengzhuan”, is this vivid description of narrow-mindedness: “with three feet three inches wide wooden board made of stool, not Zhuang people called ‘bench’, he also called ‘bench’, but the city people called ‘bar stool’, he thought: this is wrong, ridiculous! Pan-fried fish, not Zhuang are added half-inch long onion leaves, but the city but add finely shredded onion, he thought: this is also wrong, ridiculous! Yet the people of Wuzhuang are ridiculous country people who have not seen the world, they have not seen the fried fish in the city! I think, from big religious conflicts, national strife, ethnic hatred, to small neighborhood disputes, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fights, many of them are related to the narrow values of each. If we solve the problem that everyone can fry fish, cut shredded onion and sit on a stool according to their own preferences, there will be peace in the world and the country will be rich and peaceful. So, how do you get your children to have multiple values? One is reading, and the other is traveling. Read ten thousand books, can not die reading, that is dull; travel ten thousand miles, also can not travel in vain, that is a peddler. Reading, to learn to think, travel, but also to travel in depth. The combination of the two will really work. Recently there is a statement I like: either travel, or reading, the body and soul always have to be on the road. Lesson 2: diverse world Travel, is one of the best and most intuitive way to see the real world, the real life. Many times, what we take for granted and are used to, is not really what it should naturally be. Travel, is to let us know, away from where we live, fifty miles, five hundred miles, five thousand miles away, where the mountains are like, where the water is like, where the house is like, where the people are like …… the most critical, is where the life, what is really like. Experience the real life of people with different beliefs, cultures and customs. All of these, what you see with your own eyes, what you hear with your own ears, the actions from each other, the eyes of each other, the communication from each other’s hearts, cannot be experienced at home. The third lesson: the lesson of multiple perspectives on life. Travel also makes one aware of the diversity of life forms and the endless possibilities of life. The preciousness of life lies in its diversity, in its endless possibilities. There are hundreds of millions of forms of living things, more than 15,000 kinds of ants alone, and the possibilities of human life, in just a few decades, should also be infinite. Going on a trip is the best way to know this secret of life. Many people, in the midst of travel, found the true meaning of life, looking for their own soul belongs. I like Peter Mayer’s trip from New York to Provence, later, he changed the course of his life, and his wife and two dogs live here in seclusion; I like Hesse’s trip in southern Switzerland, later, he settled in the small village of Ticino, the countryside in a corner, but wrote the words that affect the world; I also like Goethe’s travels in Germany’s Thuringia forest area, in the top of the Kerkelheim mountain hunting on the walls of small wooden buildings, painted I also like how Goethe, while traveling in the woods of Thuringia, Germany, painted the walls of a small wooden building on top of the Kirkleheim mountain, and wrote his heirloom masterpiece, The Wanderer’s Song. There is good, there is bad, there is familiar, there is strange, there is understanding, there is puzzlement. Any place has its beauty and ugliness; just as any person has its loveliness and shortcomings. I believe that few people at the foot of the magnificent snow-capped mountains, will not feel the greatness of nature, the smallness of life; and few people, after opening their eyes and growing their chests, will be calculating, jealous. When a person, after knowing the different ways to live life, will not become a machine that only makes money, will not only think that a certain way of life is the best, will not only listen to a voice, will not only do what others tell him should do …… that is, he began to become a person with their own thinking, have their own opinion, have their own dignity, have their own pursuit. He starts to become a new person with his own thinking, his own opinion, his own dignity, and his own pursuit. When a person sees various kinds of life during his journey, he will naturally think about why others live this way and how I should live myself. The combination of travel encounters and inner thoughts brightens the eyes, fills the spirit, experiences life, and changes life – this is the greatest meaning of travel.