u/sandwichAuxTomates

Hi,

38 yo solo mom here. When I was young, I liked to travel a lot. I would say it was part of my personality. But I didn’t travel in the way we usually think of it, following the tourism industry. It was more like living abroad for short period of time. For example, 2 monts in London when I was 19. A semester in Barcelona at 22. A year in Lima at 26. A month backpacking Andalucía, etc.

Then I had a kid and almost stop traveling. My kid is now 7 yo. This year I was excited to introduced my kid to traveling. We went 12 days in Paris. I tought it would be easier than other destinations because we speak french, there are a lot of things to do, etc. But I feel like it didn’t really worked. It felt too long for my kid, he wanted to come back home. I had to organize a lot of activities because he would get bored otherwise. It was not a desaster, we had a great time overall, but I was not as fullfilling as I was expecting.

I don’t know what type of advice I am looking for. Did some of solo mom traveled with their child in a more « slow travel » way? Where? Any ideas to find a sense of understanding the place and « living it » even with a child?

Thanks!

Bonjour. J’habite la ville de Quebec et mon garçon est en U7 cet été avec Soccer Quebec. Je ne connais rien dans ça n’ayant jamais vraiment cotoyé le monde du sport dans ma propre jeunesse, mais je trouve que le jeu est encore vraiment pas structuré. Je comprenais quand ils étaient plus jeunes mais la il me semble qu’ils pourraient avoir une équipe, apprendre les règles, avoir des vrais matchs. Je compare avec les enfants qui jouent au hockey et à 7 ans ils ont déjà des positions, font des games, on une équipe. Est-ce que c’est comme ça partout? J’ai l’impression qu’ils passent encore le 3/4 du temps a faire des petits jeux et à ne pas jouer au soccer finalement. Qu’en pensez-vous?