Excerpt from a YouTube video by Hinesh Chauhan offering practical family vacation planning advice: he describes collaboratively designing an itinerary with kids by allocating beach, amusement-park, and camping/hotel time, discussing realistic hotel budgets, and using trade-offs to teach kids about costs and responsibility.
Okay, vacation planning part de. I should turn that around for my international friends. Sorry. We do a design based on what I want to see, limited on museums. I. I get cut off. There's a threshold given to me by my kids. The kids throw in, okay, we need this much beach time. We want to hit an amusement park or a water park. And then we start laying out those key milestones or destinations on, on our roadmap. And next is how much camping versus hotel we do. What type of hotels are we looking for? And it's really a discussion of, hey, this is the reality, guys. We're not staying in a $400 a night hotel. This is more like it. Otherwise we can do a three day road trip and do that, but then we blow our budget. So there's trade offs. It gets the kids really understanding budgeting. They understand the cost of what things really are and it gets them engaged in it. And then when things go sideways or they're not having fun, you can also blame them because they've been part of the process too. Right? Teamwork makes the dream work.
