The Holidays

Our lives in the west seem to revolve around ourselves and our immediate families. There was a time when the holidays meant spending time with extended family. Visiting parents and grand parents, catching up with uncles and aunties and so on. Recently though there has been a trend for families to spend their holidays just on their own. Due to lack of time and the pressures of work, parents now use the holidays to get away from the tedium of a stressful routine. Many parents who hold high powered jobs abide by the mantra that if they work hard they are entitled to play hard but by thinking on these lines they subliminally nod to the selfish thought that the holidays are for them alone. No one, not even their partners or their kids should get in the way of that time off. The best kept secret for a successful holiday is also the most obvious; endeavour to make the holiday the best for the rest of the members of your family and you will find perhaps surprisingly to you that they would do the same for you.