This week in review

This past week we went on a family vacation. We drove, (the six of us), up to Williamsburg, VA. It is a beautiful area there, with lots to do. As I looked over my Facebook postings over the week I laughed when I saw what I posted on the second day: "has discovered it's not a good idea to take kids on an educational vacation, the first week of summer break." Boy, it all came back to me, my four kids, ages 11-16 complaining endlessly about having to walk through the Jamestown, Yorktown, and Williamsburg historic sites. I was very disappointed to realize they were getting little or none from our visits. While reflecting on our visit and their experience, I contemplated what the museums could do to make it more enjoyable. Recently while in Seattle, we toured the Picasso exhibit at SAM and they gave visitors headphones to listen to which told stories and explained each piece of artwork. I looked at my four kids with their iPods plugged into their ears and thought they really should have podcasts available from iTunes for the kids to listen to. I did search iTunes and they have multiple podcasts available. However, this was not advertised anywhere on the sites, and going blindly, I could not figure out which podcast matched which exhibit. Hopefully, someone is working on making this more kid friendly, so maybe my kids will be one of the last to think it was a waste of time.