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Article: Are we having fun yet? If family vacations are short on enjoyment, parents may need to plan more -- and expect less
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 10, 1992
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Copyright informationCopyright 1992 The Boston Globe. (Hide copyright information)
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If a vacation is supposed to be a respite, a time when you do
something new and exciting and relaxing so that you can return to
your daily life refreshed and energized, a family vacation might well
be an oxymoron.
If anything, a family vacation has the potential to be one of the
most stressful weeks of the year: You may plan and look forward to it
for months, but it can disintegrate within hours. Your
sleep-deprived toddler won't stop whining, the older siblings won't
stop bickering. Your preschooler asks 10 times in two hours when he
can go home to his real house, and your 8-year-old is pouty because
she misses her friends. And then it rains.
There is no guaranteed formula for keeping ...
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