We’ve all been there before and know that for some reason the teenage years can be difficult sometimes. Attitude and boredom often accompany teenagers. Here are some tips to help you have an enjoyable holiday with your teenager.
Planning
Teenagers are great kids and can be a blast to spend time with. The key is to plan a holiday with a few activities you know your teenager will enjoy. A great way to be sure of this is to let your teenager help plan and pick a few things they would like to do while on holiday.
Plan a day out with your teenager one on one. If you have a teenage daughter, plan a mother-daughter shopping day walking around the streets of town and finding a few items to bring back home. If you have a teenage son, plan a father-son outing with a round of golf, a day boating, or head to a nearby sporting event.
Teenagers are at an age where being with friends and not missing out on events at home are important to them. That is why it’s important to help them not feel like they are missing out, but that the holiday is the place to be. For example, if you plan a beach holiday your teenager will be able to enjoy the sand, sun, and beach just like you. They will also probably enjoy participating in some water sports such as surfing, parasailing, or scuba diving.
If you have an active teenager who enjoys the outdoors and being on the move a holiday to the mountains where you can ski and snowboard would be a good choice for a family visit. A holiday to the city where you can visit various museums, monuments, and check out restaurants with good food may be another holiday that your teenager finds interesting.
Teenagers can also have quite the appetite. To avoid crankiness due to hunger, pack snacks in your purse or bag to have on excursions and even to have on hand in case of a long waiting line at a restaurant. A content teenager is a happy teenager.
Although they don’t always say it or show it they love you (parents) and these family holidays are ones they will look back on and enjoy as the remember the times spent together.
