Family trips have a profound and lasting impact on kids’ overall happiness and well-being
Instead of Buying Toys, Scientists Suggests Parents Take More Family Vacations
With Halloween and Christmas fast approaching, the majority of the parents are shopping toys for their children.
The holiday season, for many parents, often involves a lot of spending, buying toys. More often than not, the Christmas holiday falls between Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Boxing week, so the urge to waste more money on holiday significantly increases.
Children may only actually want or value around a third of the toys that we buy them
According to reports by Forbes, children do not want or value most of the gifts they receive. Just in the year 206 alone, the average parent spent over $1,700 during the holiday season.
A personal finance writer, Maya Kachroo-Levine, illustrated the amount of money that is benefitting the kids. This year, parents are projected to spend at least $495 dollars per child. There was a $100 increase from last year's anticipated spending expense.
Spending time in a new location is very important for a child’s brain growth
Oliver James, UK's best-selling psychological author, firmly believes that all that Christmas spending should be spent on holidays instead of toys. He went on to further reemphasize his point that children often do not want or either have any value for the gifts they usually receive. He also stated that the custom of giving children with presents and more expensive material commodities for kids as they get older is only boosting the respective industry's profits.
Still, he believes that unlike insignificant toys, holidays are more appreciated by children at the moment that they occurred and also will be further meaningful in the future. Consequently, spending more money on holiday is more worthy when compared to toy gifts for children.
What children will remember is the happy memories that you make together
A psychology professor at Cornell University, Thomas Gilovich, performed an eye-opening test study. From the experiments, Thomas Gilovich was able to conclude the fact that humans acquire happiness not from objects but rather from experiences.
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