Will my kids be bored on an educational vacation?
We can make different venues more interesting for kids. As an example, we always used to go into the gift shop first when we went to a museum, and we'd have each of the kids buy five postcards. Then, in the museum, we would search for the artwork that was in their postcards. We didn't always find it - sometimes we found other things, but we were able to say to them, for example, "What did you like about this picture?" You learn a lot about what your kids aesthetics are because maybe they like the color, maybe they like the composition, maybe they like the animal. You don't really know, but you can learn from that. We also once had our kids take tape recorders, and instead of bothering other people, they kept busy by describing what they saw. We call them our sight-seeing tapes. And years later, you listen to them and you just giggle, because they're just so funny - the voices are different, and they're talking to each other at the same time that they're talking into their tapes. There are ways you make it interesting. If all you really want to do is go to the museum exhibit that you're in town for, and it's one of the reasons you chose this vacation venue, then you should call the museum and find out if they have a childrens education class going on. Put them in the class, go and see the museum on your own for two hours. They're still in the museum, and you're still in the museum. There are so many things that you can do to make it interesting.
