Holidays arrive and two questions appear, where are we going? and we go from Holidays with the family, yes or no?
Not so long ago, a bitten apple was a fruit that was half finished and no one thought of any fashionable little pot. In those times, when everything was done digitally (that is, with fingers and hands) the concept "family" consisted of a more or less extensive number that shared similar facial features, rooms, bathrooms and tables.
With this modernization the thing changed and the families were disintegrating along the Spanish coast. With the improvement of transport, the change of mule or donkey for a shiny steel horse, allowed the family to re-concentrate around the patriarchal table with relative ease, and thus in summer they were accumulating, children , brothers, cousins, nephews and other family in multiples of a dozen and a half. All under a perfect quasi-military hierarchy that made it possible for each of us to have multiple, informal parents.
The advantages
This, from the point of view of the suffering parents who already arrived at these summer dates with batteries and sanity, under minimum was a clear advantage when it was time to "let go" of the kids because there would always be some "older cousin", uncle or grandfather that will watch them while they tried to digest the summer food in boa mode, - or dog that perhaps abounds more in these latitudes -, in the shadow of that fig tree that was already large when they took your first steps. And take advantage of the fact that the elders got up early to let themselves be loved a little more for the sheets in those days without arguments so that the children dress or drink the milk. "Five more minutes and I take them to hummm beach." And what is better than that guy who jumps to the bullfighter all the medical rules, he takes the clueless while your children take a bath without two, or four hours of digestion depending on who you ask. Or the grandmothers, it was enough to name their custard so you had two liters to snack.
But not everything are advantages
And it is that if it is already difficult to agree on four people to do something, I do not want to tell them what it was like to move two dozen and of course you can already forget about having a moment of solitude with your partner and your children, now I can't tell you alone, although you can imagine it. Another black point of family vacations is that the probability of discussion is directly proportional to the number of members involved in the conversation and something like that can make the holidays bitter to anyone. The rigidity of schedules, something necessary to maintain a certain degree of coordination among so many people, can turn against one on those dates in which what you least want is to continue with the routine maintained during the year. We also have the classics of yesterday and today, the brother-in-law, the insufferable mother-in-law, the neighbor's cock, etc. A whole repertoire of classics.
And you? On vacation with the family, yes or no?
