Children as partners: when grown kids make ideal traveling companions

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Traveling with children, who are growing up and showing independence and a sense of responsibility, is one way to acknowledge that you respect their abilities to function well in a foreign place. The experience of exploring a strange place together, where need and interest are mutual, is gratifying.

author: Snyder, Elise W.
Parent and child, Parent-child relations

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My several selves: to go to a new place is to be a new person

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The opportunity to travel to different countries in different parts of the world offers the traveler a chance to do more than just enjoy a vacation. It provides the chance to blend into the culture and surroundings and allows one to take on a whole new identity.

author: Reid, Alastair
Psychological aspects, Trips around the world

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Close friends far away

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Travel is as much about meeting people as seeing places, and travelers often make lifelong friends in a few days. Helen Gliss, who runs a shopping service called Asian Cajun in Hong Kong, is discussed.

author: Simmons, Margaret Staats
Editorial

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subjects list: Social aspects, Travel, Personal narratives, Travelers
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