The Family Road Trip
If you want to break your family up, it seems like the road trip isn’t a bad way to try, but in actuality the many Hollywood road trip movies can’t be that wrong. It has to be a great opportunity to get to know each other too? Right?
Well it turns out the family even with all the griping and complaining loves the memory of the road trip. With mishaps it is even better. If you get lost, it may add to the memory. You may even get to the site of the trip and find that the website had not been updated in several years to reflect the current status of the OK corral. All of these mishaps create memories and this creates an inside joke. The inside joke connects you to your family in a way that no one else can be connected because of this shared experience.
Keeping a family together involves a lot of hard work. You almost had to have a very thick skin to get through the hard times so that you can enjoy the good times. Years later when you are sitting on your recliner and your teen out of nowhere recalls the time you were on a road trip to Disneyland and when you got there it rained the whole time, but you guys got to ride all the rides with minimal wait time. And then your teen adds –And this is the part that really floors you –”Wasn’t that awesome?!”
There are going to be a lot of things your teen doesn’t want to do. You don’t always have to be so democratic. You can force some experiences on them in the hopes that one of those experiences of which you were a part will form a great memory that they will hold dear for the rest of their lives.
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