Your kid's interests, if you follow them, will take you into experiences you didn't give yourself when you were younger. Plus they will help to keep your learning curve going straight up.
In 1869 Mark Twain said, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it sorely on those accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
It was this Twain quote that really intrigued Joel and gave him the seed thought for going anywhere in the world with all four of his children when they reached 15 years of age. Joel wanted to do something that would proactively prepare his children to respect different cultures and would open their eyes to the larger world. With cultural competency, values are not so much taught as they are caught.
These were not to be business trips with his teenagers tagging along. Instead it was to be a time when he was to be totally focused on his children and their wishes, wants and desires. It was not to be about him, it was to be all about them. Let's take a look at what has happened since those individual promises. But first, why would Joel pick the age of 15? You'll have to listen to find out.
In this show we are joined by one of Joel's sons, Jesse, to help us unpack the lessons learned before, during, and after the trip of a lifetime with dad.