For many families vacations are a hectic time with stress so great that parents can't wait to get back to the peace of work! Something is wrong with this picture. Family vacations are supposed to be a time to be together without pressures of schedules and commitments to others, a time to enjoy one another and being together.
That is how it is supposed to be.
That controversial topic, appearing in the headlines of major newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, is a subject for a call all by itself.
Right now I am sharing one activity we did when traveling on long and mini-vacations as a family. The best way to explain this game is to simulate it using tape recorders to create four voices since my young family was four people. Please play the audio post Road Trip to understand how this works:
1.Give person #1 a sound and rhythm, called "A" to make over and over and over again for the entire "round"of the game
2. Give person #2 a different sound and rhythm called sound "B"to make that works with sound "A"
3. You guessed it--give person #3 still a different sound and rhythm to make that works with "A" and "B"
4. Person #4 now makes the music that is the melody or lead voice, as it were.
Enjoy your sing-a-long and you will enjoy each other.
By the way--no one is right or wrong in creating the sounds that go together. The person creating, composing--is always right in their choice. Play,literally using your voice or clapping, or whistling, etc, your part! You can't help but smile all the while!
