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Weird Question----Do your college aged kids still travel with you?
Weird weird question, and I'm bored today because I'm off because working the weekend (and everyoen else in my family is at work or school) But curious what has gone on in other families. Anyway....I'm wondering how many years I really have with my boys going to Disney with us. I know it's different for everyone, but just thinking. I'm thinking they will keep going with us forever, but I took my last vacation with my parents when I was 16....and its starting to hit me now because I have a 15 year old. I get very sad. After that big family disney trip when I was 16, my parents started taking trips down the shore, and I started staying home on my own....and when I graduated high school started taking trips with my friends . I keep thinking they will always go to Disney with us, and we should add on DVC points, but wondering what the reality has been in other families. When do your older/adult children stop vacationing with you (at least until they have families of their own). am I counting down our final years of family vacations lol?
I am 31 and still love taking vacations with my parents. We are actually traveling to WDW for NYE as a large group this year! Yes, it is very different for each and every family. Most of my friends still take a week each year with their families, but also travel with their significant others, or as a group of friends. However I have a few other friends who want nothing to do with taking vacations with their families. I don't think that you have much to worry about, especially if you bring it to their attention that maybe this is something you want to continue doing annually with them, and even when they have their own families.
It's funny vacations were a priority with my family growing up , but once I turned 17....they stopped planning them. We always had a trailer at the shore (now they have a house and live there)....so my parents just started going there and assumed I'd want to stay home to hang out with my friends. Once I had a boyfriend and in college, my boyfriend (now husband) and I would start spending a week at my parents' trailer (for our vacation since we were in college and broke) at the shore and I had vacations with them again, but I never had any travel vacations per say with them until my husband and I bought DVC and invited them to come with us one year (which was wonderful.....if only I had enough points to do that more often).
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MY boys took most family vacations with us through the time my ex left and then it was not financially possible. They were a senior in college and a year out of college. It took some planning and balancing to meet everyone's school/work schedule but these vacations were important to our family. ONce in college, the boys might only go for part of the vacation and my older son who was half way across the country in college often flew directly back to school.
MY DD and I took yearly trips to WDW while she was in college. She was on the school equestrian team and they did a pre-season practice in FL so I joined her after the session and we had a short, sweet and cheap vacation together.
I have gotten back on my feet after the divorce and a serious illness and this spring took my grandson and his parents (my older son, now 32) to WDW as well as my DD. It was a wonderful time and I would do it again in a heart beat.
I think as kids get older, you need to focus more on their needs. DD did a one week trip with a friend to WDW her senior year in high school. MY middle son is a biologist and was a birder as a child. We often did vacations so that he could see new birds.
I think the first few years of college and the last year of HS is a time that kids spread their wings and may want to travel alone. BUt they will come back.
ETA: It is hard when you kids get older, but IMHO they only get better.
I think it depends upon the family. My father and I both love Disney and had it been possible, we probably would have kept going as I got older but for us, finances dictated the trips. We went to Disney when I was 15 and my brother was 18 and that was it for quite a few years. We did take a cruise together when I was 21 (dad ran an activity club at his work and for so many people that signed up for the cruise, we got free passage IIRC) and then when I was 22, it was financially possible to go to Disney again. There was no question in my mind or that of my parents if I would go with them. Then I met Lenny and had Abby so Disney was once again out for a few more years but had dad lived, we would have gone to Disney when Abby turned 6 as a family.
Mom on the other hand likes cruises and even though I'm sure she'd like to have us along, it's just not my thing so we don't go. If your kids like Disney then it's entirely possible they'll still continue to go with you no matter how old they are.
I don't have kids. But I did several family Disney trips as a college student. I went in 2006, twice in 2009 and again in 2010. Its definitely not the same as with kids or when you are a kid, but its still fun. Just a different kind of trip. Instead of waiting in line to meet characters and ride every ride, you wait in line for beers and enjoy different foods.
We are planning a big trip next year-my parents, me and my husband and my brother and his gf. All adults. Should be a blast.
I'm going to Disney with my mom to celebrate our birthdays in one week and I'm turning 26. I try to do at least one vacation a year with her but we've also both gone to Disney separately. I think it just depends on your kids really.
I'm 42 and still travel with my family. And when I was in college my parents always planned a spring break trip to go skiing so I went.
Although my parents still travel on their own we still do family trips or they will take the grand kids with them. So I really think if you want it to happen you can make it happen
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My kids are 20 and 22. We are still vacationing together and will for a bit yet. In March we four went to Universal together....and did it at Christmas too.
Just keep planning trips and ask them to come with you. I'm betting they'll want to keep doing it if it's been how they've known vacations to be growning up.
In a week and a half I'll be going to HHI with My parents....still try to vacation with them once a year. Same with my in laws.
I stopped vacationing with my parents when I was 14, but there was never a trip to Disney involved! We have vacationed together a few times since my DS was born, but frankly, we have much different styles of vacationing and it doesn't really work. My DSis and I, however, often vacation together and it goes quite well.
My DS is 14 and just started high school and, like you, I'm wondering how many years of family vacations we have left before he decides to abandon us for his friends. But as I plan fabulous trips that are hard to resist , I'm hoping he'll hang in with us for quite a few more years. Besides, I've done my best to raise a Disney addict and I'm sure he'll find it hard to stay away for too long.
My girls, 32,22, and 17 still travel with us quite frequently. Sometimes I will take a trip with just 1 or 2 of them, but Disney is usually a whole family thing. My mother and stepmother go with us sometimes. A year ago, we took the 2 youngest girls on a 2 weeks driving trip to the east coast and Canada.
My then 18 and 21 year old went with us to Disney two years ago and had a ball. They were very into the Food and Wine Festival, but we all had a great time. And they always want to come with us to the beach if they can work it into their schedules. Since they are both in the same college now, it will be easier to mesh up the vacation times.
I came home and traveled with my family to visit grandparents during vacations (two winters to Florida and four summers to upstate New York) while I was in college. It would not occur to me to want to stay home by myself. Because we had moved right before my senior year in high school, I didn't have many friends in the city where my parents lived. Even if I did, though, I would have traveled with my family for a week. I stopped traveling with them once I had a full-time job with limited vacation.
My sister, on the other hand, was a senior in high school when I graduated college, and stayed with a friend rather than travel with my parents to my graduation.
So, it really depends on your child, your vacation plans, and your finances. My parents drove wherever we went to visit family, so the marginal cost of my going was minimal. I have told my son (a high school senior) that is welcome to join us if we go to Walt Disney World or Disneyland over the next few years, if his schedule permits, but if he do come with us we might need to scale costs down.
My girls still LOVE Disney. We just got back from a 21 family member vacation. My daughters are 29,28, 26 and 21 and they came (along with DD 29's husband). It makes me so happy that my kids are adults and still love WDW!!
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, I'm hoping he'll hang in with us for quite a few more years. Besides, I've done my best to raise a Disney addict and I'm sure he'll find it hard to stay away for too long.
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