Why We Travel With Our Kids: They Won’t Remember, But We’ll Never Forget
Looking out with wonder —what she won’t remember, we always will. 1. They Won’t Remember It—But We Will My toddler won’t remember the butterflies at Entopia , the elephants at Wild Elephant Valley , or the stunning view of rice terraces in Yuanyang . They probably won’t remember the look on our faces when our 3-year-old daughter devoured four big rolls of Beijing duck. But my husband and I will. We’ll remember the joy on their faces when they saw real monkeys—black or brown. The way they giggled feeding elephants, yelled "so high!" during parasailing, or marveled at terraced fields like they were stairways to the sky. I'will remember sweating through carrying my baby boy while climbing the Zhangjiajie mountains and stressing when we got lost, again, in search of food before the next meltdown. They might not recall these places. But we’ll remember how travel softened us, slowed us, and pulled us closer. We’ll remember how these shared mome...