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Two years passed, and when my mother died, I knew I needed to go back to the place which had helped me so much. It was then that we made the decision to change our lives, buying a little bolthole Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.My parents hope to travel around world next summer. A. a B. an C. the D. Ø (no article) Permanent visa (subclass 143 or 864) - pay $47,755 which is the second Visa Application Charge per parent. Temporary visa (subclass 173 or 884) pay $31,670 for the second Visa Application Charge per parent, which would entitle parents to a two-year temporary residence visa including Medicare access and work rights. LMA2VBH. You really want to go on a Contiki tour, but you think your parents will say no? Here are a few ready-made arguments to convince them to let you go. Photo © Getty Images/electravk You are a mighty eagle standing on the edge of the world, ready to take your rightful place, and you want to explore – you want to go traveling. But to your parents you’re a fledgling, feebly flapping your wings on the edge of the nest and about to plummet from the mountaintop and they’re holding you back. So what do you do about that? Here are a few arguments to help you get your travel plans across the line with mom and dad. Use this as a guide to convince your parents travel is a good idea. Let your mom know you'll be safe Your parents’ greatest fear is for your safety. The world’s a dangerous place, or so they’ve been told by the news. but data reveals less than 10% of policyholders make a claim. The vast majority of those are minor matters of lost belongings, missed flights and out-of-pocket expenses. Extreme medical cases and emergencies make up a very small proportion of claims. The same goes for terrorism. The statistics show you are 4 times more likely to be hit by lightning than be a victim of a terrorist act, but no one says they’re too afraid to travel because of thunderstorms. Keep the freak-out factor low Not everyone is ready for a solo overland trip to Southeast Asia, in fact, it’s dangerous to bite off more than you can chew, and will give your parents an apoplectic fit. Start small and work your way up to India Jones. Which is why managed tours, like those provided by Contiki, are perfect. You get to see and do everything with plenty of “me time”, but someone experienced is booking all the hotels, making sure there’s a meal at the end of the day, and you get from city A to city B without getting lost. 3 arguments on why you should travel If your parents are still not convinced here are 3 ready-made arguments about why you should be allowed to travel 1. Travel improves the chances of getting a good job It teaches real-life skills and shows an employer you are resourceful, adventurous and worldly. In the modern workforce, employers are often looking for more than educational qualifications, they’re looking for someone adaptable and resourceful – skills you learn from travel. 2. Travel puts an old head on young shoulders It’s a physiological fact that adolescent brains don’t fully develop until age 25 unless some extraordinary circumstances force the brain to develop faster. We’ve all seen those westerns where before the cowboy rides off tells the 12-year-old “you’re the man of the house now, boy”. Studies show travel has the same effect, thankfully without the cheesiness. 3. Young adults need risk in order to develop We’re talking about acceptable risk, not recklessness, but how do you learn from your mistakes if you’re never allowed to make any? Some psychologists are going so far as to suggest over protection is equal to depriving your child of the chance to grow and is a form of abuse. What if something does go wrong? It’s only sensible to be prepared for the worst, regardless of how unlikely that may be, which is why in May 2016 Contiki and World Nomads formed a partnership naming World Nomads as their preferred travel insurance provider. Of course, Contiki has decades of experience in managing tour groups and their staff on tour and back at headquarters have probably seen it all, and dealt with it, before. World Nomads has emergency assistance teams on call 24/7 and they have more than a decade of experience in dealing with every travel problem imaginable. Contiki and World Nomads The companies share many beliefs, chief among them their commitment to helping young people explore their boundaries through travel. World Nomads believes in the benefit of seeking new experiences, learning something new and connecting with locals. You have to be informed about the places you travel, and to stay safe. But perhaps the two most important values are the duty to give back to the places we’ve traveled and to share our stories to inspire others to travel. Contiki has very similar core values. On their website, they say “You only get one shot at life so make every moment count. Adventure isn’t something you do, it’s an attitude. It’s getting out of your comfort zone, meeting new people and experiencing different cultures, seeing different perspectives and having the courage to go further. Challenge everything. Do things with passion, but tread lightly.” By , World Nomads Contributor - Thu, 31 Oct 2019 You can buy at home or while traveling, and claim online from anywhere in the world. With 150+ adventure activities covered and 24/7 emergency assistance. Related articles How to Stay Calm When Your Child Is Traveling, According to TripSavvy Parents Pro tip Avoid watching "Taken" at all costs We’re celebrating the joy of solo travel. Let us inspire your next adventure with features about why 2021 is the ultimate year for a solo trip and how traveling alone can actually come with amazing perks. Then, read personal features from writers who have traversed the globe alone, from hiking the Appalachian Trail, to riding rollercoasters, and finding themselves while discovering new places. Whether you’ve taken a solo trip or you’re considering it, learn why a trip for one should be on your bucket list. For many parents, the thought of their child traveling alone—especially for the first time—brings up a complex mix of emotions. Fear, anxiety, excitement, pride, you name it. Even seasoned travelers who have explored the world on their own can't help but worry when it's time for their kids to travel on their own. But it doesn't have to be that way. As a team of travel pros, the parents of Team TripSavvy have a lot of experience with solo traveling kids—here's what they had to say about staying calm while your child is off on their own. The first tip is to avoid watching "Taken" at all costs, trust us. Courtesy of Ellie Storck Sharing My Location Gives My Traveler Parents Peace of Mind My parents both got a taste for solo travel via epic cross-country road trips in the 1970s, which explains why I love them—the '70s, road trips, and my parents—so much. “My first really impactful solo experience was in 1975, the year after I graduated from high school,” my dad said with a grin. “I took a gap year and worked and did various things. And one of the things I did was get on a train to cross the country to San Francisco to visit my sister." Starting in New York, he spent three days crossing the country on his own. "It was a lot of fun because there were a lot of young people on the train and we all kind of glommed together into a unit. We took over the viewing car, which was double-decked, and sat on the top deck with all the views, and we just camped out there—slept there, ate there, hung out, played music.” My mom’s first solo trip was more of the explore-the-wild-west ilk. “I never was traveling alone until college when I went to Windham in Putney, Vermont,” she told me. “When I was done with college and moved home to Annapolis, I drove with a friend through Colorado and to the southwest. We stayed with friends here and there as we drove. We had to drive through the desert at night, so the car didn’t overheat.” Even though they have considerable experience, as a woman traveling around the world on my own, it comes as no surprise that my parents get nervous. “I never worried about you doing well with decision making,” said my mom, “but rather running into someone who would take advantage of you.” My dad had similar concerns a la Liam Neeson’s "Taken" "As a father, I imagined all the worst-case scenarios. But I knew that I had a lot of confidence in you, so I wasn’t that worried beyond the usual stuff.” He and I reminisced about when we figured out how to use the location sharing settings on our phones when I traveled to Japan alone two years ago. That technology made it simple for them to know where I was at all times, and it was pretty funny getting a text from him saying, “Oh, wow, you’re at the base of Mount Fuji!” —Ellie Nan Storck, hotel editor Courtesy of Astrid Taran I Send My Mom Selfies From My Location My mom was a prolific traveler throughout her twenties, so she’s always encouraged me to travel as much as possible. But when I started traveling solo, she definitely had some reservations. “I need to be able to contact you at all times,” I remember her telling me before one of my first solo trips. “So make sure to answer my texts immediately.” Like many parents, my mom is constantly concerned about my whereabouts. Add in the potential factor of me being in a different country—let alone a country where I didn’t speak the native tongue—and she was more than a little antsy. When I asked her why she needed constant text updates from me, she replied, “So I can make sure you’re alive.” In 2005, 18-year-old American teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared on a high school trip to Aruba. You couldn’t turn a television on or open a newspaper and not hear about it. At the time, I was a young teenager myself and had already been bitten hard by the travel bug. Natalee’s disappearance and its subsequent international news coverage was a dark shadow cast upon millions of American teens. I remember a group of parents protesting a high school class trip to Italy that spring, terrified to let their children out of sight. Before heading off on weekend road trips with friends, my mom would ask me to write down the name of where I’d be staying and make me promise to call promptly upon my arrival. These days, things have changed. I have a cell phone, which is constantly at my side. “The digital age has its benefits,” my mom conceded. When she traveled through Europe in the 80s, she wrote letters home every week, dropping them off at the consulate. “I would send my mother photos of all the places I’d been,” she said. It took me a second to realize she meant physical photos. “So she would know I’m okay.” Today, I’m able to send my mom a selfie from my location in a matter of seconds—no need to wait for photos to develop. It’s the least I can do to grant her peace of mind. —Astrid Taran, senior audience editor Courtesy of Taylor McIntyre Regularly Scheduled Contact Is a Must for My Parents I took my first solo trip right after college, where I backpacked for a year, on my own, through 30 different countries in Europe. That was the first time I left the country, save for a quick road trip to Canada with my friend. Before the trip, I remember my parents being visibly nervous but trying to put on a brave face that would often break as I hopped from one country to the next. "We were nervous and frightened the whole time," my mom said. Of course, my dad referenced "Taken" and how, if I were put in danger, he was no Liam Neeson. I asked if they didn’t want me to do that trip. My dad paused. "No, no. I always raised you to be independent and to live out your dreams. I wanted you to do it," he said, "but I was nervous for you.” Even now, they still get nervous when I travel, but, according to them, it’s a parent thing, and one day, I will understand. “As a parent, you always have that feeling. Even when your brother goes out driving somewhere, it’s just a parent thing.” My mom said what helped her keep it together during that year was hearing from me, whether that was a long-distance call or a post on Facebook. Her advice for other parents in her shoes? “Make sure they have an international phone plan and set up regularly scheduled contact.” As for my dad, his sage words were, "Don't travel alone. Get a buddy." —Taylor McIntyre, visual editor Courtesy of Sherri Gardner I Establish Codewords in Case I Need to Subtly Ask for Help Much like me, my parents are worriers. Like the kind of worry where if I take too long to respond to a text or miss a phone call without advance warning, my parents assume I'm incapacitated. So when I left out on my first solo trip in South Korea, I needed to send my flight itinerary and hotel reservation as well as call them at least once a day, every day. And even then, my parents, especially my dad, found it difficult to relax completely until I was back home. I was surprised to learn that he was worried even when we traveled together. As a disclaimer, he did confess to watching "Taken" dozens of times in the two years between the film's release and our first international trip and it definitely didn't help that we were going to Paris, where the movie was set. While walking the streets of Paris he "kept looking around like 'No one's gonna snatch my baby.'" When asked what advice he has for worried parents, he says "number one is to set out your safe words so that kids can let their parents know that something's wrong without saying outright that something is wrong. It's also important to understand why they want to go where they want to go." This desire to understand manifested itself as intense interrogations about what neighborhoods would I be exploring, had I researched crime rates, where I would be staying, what is it like for single women there, what would I do if I lost my passport, and so on, and so on. It was frustrating for me but these conversations gave whenever him peace of mind that I did my due diligence. But his most important tip for soothing parental anxiety? "Give them experiences when they're younger. I don't think I could've survived you going to Korea if we hadn't done Paris and if you hadn't gone to Cuba or studied in London. Each individual trip along the way builds up experience that you can use when you go on the next one." —Sherri Gardner, associate editor Courtesy of Laura Ratliff My Parents Are More Afraid of My Everyday Life—Go Figure When I first wanted to ask my parents about their thoughts on this story, I couldn't get ahold of them for three days. Odd perhaps to some, but to me, this was entirely normal. You see, almost two years ago, my parents retired, sold their suburban home in Dallas, and bought a 37' RV that would become their new home. Since then, they've traversed the country, rarely spending more than a week or two in one place, except during peak pandemic, where they stayed put in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Perhaps their largely off-grid travels are simply a way to get back at me for jet-setting throughout my late teens and 20s? Not so, said my dad. "Honestly, I worried the most about you when you moved to New York City," he admitted. That move—which occurred over a decade ago—has been followed by more than 400,000 miles of travel, much of it solo, that clearly hasn't bothered them a bit. And, no, he no longer worries about my life in New York City, although he does worry about me driving the car I purchased last year instead of walking or taking the subway. The only other time he admitted to worrying when I was on the road? "It's kind of corny," he said, "but when you went to Paris when you were 15. It was just after Sept. 11, and the whole world seemed a little in flux... But I knew you would go and be fine." Little did he know that even I, the brave, smug teen, was a little nervous on that trip too, but of course, I never would've admitted it at the time. —Laura Ratliff, senior editorial director TravelFamilyPost-pandemic, we all want to travel more meaningfully. One tip Ditch the bucket there’s one thing pandemic lockdowns have taught us, it’s that the ability to travel is a gift to approach with reverence and gratitude. In 2022, many of us want to travel differently because we’ve changed. The pandemic has opened our eyes to our fragile world and to our own physical and psychological traditions such as keeping a “bucket list” now seem flippant—almost irreverent. “And so very 2019,” says Jacqui Gifford, the editor-in-chief of Travel + Leisure. “Bucket list travel has become tone deaf, especially during a pandemic. The idea that you must itemize destinations to see before you die, and that those select destinations will have a grander impact on your physical being or mental health than others, seems silly.”The lifting of pandemic restrictions gives parents an opportunity to help kids develop a healthy mindset around travel—one based on values of engagement and empathy, rather than achievement and acquisition. We seek more purposeful interactions at our destinations, and we want our footsteps across the planet to imprint less but mean backs the concept that exploring more mindfully not only benefits a destination but also our own personal health and happiness. Here are four ways families and kids can travel why you’re travelingJaime Kurtz, a psychologist at James Madison University and author of The Happy Traveler Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacation, suggests starting any trip planning with the question, why do I want to take this trip? “Search within yourself,” she advises. “Why did I pick this place? What makes me feel happy and fulfilled?”Instead of checking off some guidebook’s list of must-see sites, connect with your family’s interests and passions, and use that to design a trip “that’s more authentic” to you, she says. It might also inspire you to explore beyond your usual the history of the people and places before you visit them, Kurtz recommends. Consider taking a destination pledge, such as the Sedona Cares Pledge, which encourages visitors to follow their “sixth sense of responsibility” and respect the area’s trails and heritage. Several popular destinations—including Iceland, New Zealand, Palau, and Big Sur in California—suggest travelers read and sign their destination pledges before arriving.Here are 25 amazing adventures for the year ahead.While you’re traveling, Kurtz suggests “getting to know people’s stories and finding ways to empathize with the people in the place as opposed to just seeing them as a spectacle.” If you and your kids listen to others more attentively and ignore distractions, such as your phone or getting Insta-worthy photos, that enhanced focus can lead to more authentic understanding and connections. “The more we can get to know the place on a deeper level, the more we’re going to care about preserving it and treating it with respect and treating the people there with respect.”For her own excursions, Kurtz hires local guides who often share their personal stories. They may connect you and your kids to lesser-known adventures, local makers, and local restaurants. Your dollars will then support that destination more in experiences, not thingsWe are happier, research shows, when we spend our time and money on experiences rather than things. Choosing the experience of travel usually has personal rewards beyond the trip itself, says Amit Kumar, an assistant professor of psychology and marketing at the University of Texas, his research doesn’t focus exclusively on travel, it does reveal that “a whole host of benefits [can arise from] spending on doing versus spending on having.” Consuming experiences—attending a concert or snorkeling a reef together—is more likely to make you happy than buying a bigger TV.This is why travel should be considered an essential human activity.“Experiential purchases like travel tend to be more reflective of one’s identity or sense of self,” Kumar says. “Compared to expenditures on material possessions, investing in these experiences tend to be the kind of investment that contributes to who we are.” And that can translate into how you and your kids interact with the world. It can also inspire gratitude.“When people think about these experiences rather than their possessions, they actually end up being more generous to others,” he says. For example, if you feel grateful to be hiking through the Sonoran Desert and getting to know new people and learning about the delicate ecosystem, you might tip more generously or teach your kids to use water more respectfully. And the travel gift keeps giving, says Kumar. We all know that joyful glow of anticipation before a trip, but your whole family can also look forward to building closer bonds with friends and other families through your after-trip storytelling. Here’s why grateful children deal better with life’s challenges.Discover how the brain benefits from travelYour travels, both near and far, may actually boost your family’s overall brain health, says neuropsychologist Paul Nussbaum, an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and founder of the Brain Health Center. “On a physiological level, travel is very good for the brain,” he doing new things—like learning to surf or trying an unfamiliar local delicacy—may be challenging, but will become easier “because [brain] plasticity is such that you’re beginning to develop physiological, cellular connections to do those things,” says Nussbaum. “Something that was foreign is now more familiar.” As you face problems or challenges to solve in your travels, your hippocampi keep forming new networks, and your brain says he even toys with the possibility of doctors prescribing travel for brain health. But your family can always self-prescribe more travel as part of your wellness journey.“It’s a kind of universal massage of the brain that travel provides us,” Nussbaum says.Learn how thinking about your next trip can boost mental health.Center your family in their own travel narrativeNeuroscience and functional MRI studies have revealed that multiple parts of our brain engage and have heightened connectivity while and after we consume fictional stories. As we read or watch a story, parts of our brains can even light up as if we were the characters in here’s my idea for a way to replace the outdated bucket list with what I call an “encounter list.” What if we more consciously envision ourselves as the main character in our evolving stories? When your kids perceive themselves as the main character of their story, they can feel more aware of their agency, of their power to craft a narrative they can be proud of. And travel is one of the most vibrant and memory-making parts of any self-construction.These 25 books may inspire your next adventure.Ask yourself in what novel settings might you place your family this year. What complex characters do you hope your kids intersect with? What out-of-your-box adventures will your family take on? Then imagine all the ways your lives might spark with greater engagement and Brecount White is a writer based in Virginia who aspires to deepen her family’s connections to the world. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter. Q. Dear Umbra My parents fly and go on cruises multiple times a year. How do I persuade them to stop enjoying a pastime they feel they’ve earned? — Keep It Domestic? A. Dear KID, You’re in a position that many adult children of now- or soon-to-be retired parents will find hand-wringingly relatable. As with most aspects of the current climate catastrophe, you can blame American culture for your parents’ position You work and work and work for decades, and you’re told that you can enjoy your time and money once your obligations settle down. Your kids are grown, your time is less regimented, you’re free to do what you like. You plan to spend those blissful, open years “seeing the world” — a week lounging in cafés in Florence, another on the beach in Tel Aviv. But all of a sudden, the thing you spent decades fantasizing about as a reward for your time toiling in some cubicle is morally at odds with the well-being of future generations. Womp womp! To productively answer your question, we need to address two conflicts. One has to do with the generational divide that climate change brings into such sharp relief; the other is about the challenge of trying to persuade someone to adopt your values. I’m assuming your parents are part of the baby boomer generation, which gets a lot of blame for the climate disaster we’re in. In the most simplistic terms, the children of the 1950s and 60s ate up a huge part of our global carbon budget before anyone even knew what it was, and they mostly won’t be alive to see the consequences. Certainly, there are many people in that generation who are directly to blame for that disaster fossil fuel CEOs, certain legislators, and a good deal of banking executives, just for starters. But to demonize tens of millions of people for simply being alive at a pivotal time in climate action history feels … unproductive. Particularly if you’d like them to understand and adopt your values. Because it’s your values, fundamentally, that make you cringe at the jetsetter lifestyle your parents have adopted. Travel is an upsettingly bad-for-the-climate activity. Flying is the most carbon-intensive way the average person can spend their time; so much so that the Swedes have developed the term flygskam, or flight shame, to describe the feeling of guilt that haunts most climate-aware people waiting in the boarding line. Cruises are almost comically bad for the environment; they are a perfect encapsulation of the lifestyle that you would live if you wanted to accelerate climate change as quickly as possible. One analysis suggests that cruises emit 1,200 kilograms of carbon-dioxide equivalent per kilometer traveled, another that cruise travel is between three and four times as carbon-intensive as jet travel. That’s just looking at the carbon emissions from burning fuel; it doesn’t take into account the ecological impacts of sewage and food waste dumped freely into the ocean, nor the particulate pollution caused by that infamously dirty fuel. Your values, understandably, tell you that this profligate pollution is wrong. The problem is that your values conflict with your parents’ values. Let’s say that your parents have been getting themselves through the drudgery of daily life with the eventual promise of these golden years of relaxation and exploration. That’s a life value Work hard and make your money, and you’ll be rewarded with a life of leisure. To tell your parents “you did it all wrong” is just going to create rift and resentment. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t help them redefine what the life of leisure looks like. Humans are programmed to adapt and change their expectations based on a shifting reality; some are nimbler at it than others, but it’s the whole way we’re able to able survive. I think the thing you can help your parents do is not give up the reward that they’ve planned for themselves after their long working lives, but just change it. The new reality, which you’re well-positioned to describe to your parents, is one that doesn’t accommodate frequent international leisure travel without some severe ethical quandaries. The desire to travel internationally could come from any good place a yearning to understand the world better, a curiosity about other cultures, an interest in the planet’s natural beauty. But here’s the thing I’d place a safe bet that there are an astonishing number of things to see and learn and marvel at within driving or train-ing or non-cruise-sailing distance of your parents’ home. “I think it’s a matter of shifting our understanding of how to take advantage of what’s available close by us,” Wendy Wood, social psychologist and author of the book Good Habits, Bad Habits The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick, said to me. “I honestly don’t think it’s a matter of giving up what you’ve been looking forward to. I think it’s a matter of changing your framework to value what you’re doing slightly differently — valuing what you have close to home.” I’ve been delighted and impressed by so many things that are within a few hours’ drive of anywhere I’ve lived — and no, that’s not just Seattle, which is renowned for its majestic surroundings of mountains and sea. When I lived in Chicago, I found the Indiana sand dunes and the countryside of Michigan to be stunning. In the dead of winter, the long, snowy stretch of dramatic tundra between Minneapolis and Bozeman left me awestruck. In Poughkeepsie, New York, there was the entire Hudson Valley and the Adirondacks across the river. Even the beach was within driving distance, the Long Island Sound warmer than most waters in the region. Around my hometown of Pittsburgh, the misty, verdant Appalachians that span the state are worth weeks of exploration, in my opinion. I don’t think your parents are monsters for wanting to travel; to the contrary — I think it’s a far more respectable way to spend your leisure years than buying cars or big houses or fancy things. I do believe that you’d be within your rights as your parents’ child to share some of your concerns with them about the consequences of their travel, and to encourage them to put a little thought and creativity into crafting some closer-to-home vacations. That said Sometimes you don’t want to put thought and creativity into something! Sometimes the whole point of a reward is to avoid effort and work altogether! As much as I see all the awfulness of a cruise, I can appreciate that they plan every aspect of your day for weeks, and that sounds kind of dreamy. In that vein, might I recommend this approach for your parents You plan a super-nice and fascinating vacation reasonably near their home that they can undertake by car or train? You play travel agent, and they keep the carbon footprint of their trip smaller without having to put in extra work. There’s novelty and fun and, dare I say, luxury to be had without boarding a plane. Or a cruise ship. But frankly, those mostly sound like hell. Locally, Umbra

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