Surviving Family Vacations

• If you should end up in an argument, don’t be shy about apologizing, even if it wasn’t necessarily your fault. Often, the other person will apologize back and it’s worth a bit of humility to keep the vacation on an even keel.
• Take turns calling home. Whether this is a dreaded task or an envied one, don’t force your sibling to always do what you don’t want to.
• Plan ahead of time, what you both want to see and what each of you want to see. Arrange your schedule so that you have a good amount of mutual interest time along with time alone to check out your separate interests. If you don’t want to be alone, you could decide to go to three places that the other person is not interested in and vice versa. If you’re really lucky, you’ll have a sibling like mine who sat and munched popcorn at a picnic table and happily waited while I rode The Hulk (a roller coaster at Universal Adventures, Florida) a gazillion times. But you might not be so lucky and get dragged away before you start chucking up your own popcorn.
• Treat others the way you want to be treated. If you treat a brother or sister, or parent for that matter, with respect, you’re much more likely to get respected back.
• If all else fails and the vacation sucks majorly, just chalk it up to life experience and write about it in the discussion area so everyone can suffer with you. :)

Go To Page: 1 2

Articles in this Topic    Discussions in this Topic