Comments on: Traveling with Children in China http://www.travelsavvymom.com/blog/family-travel/traveling-with-children-in-china/ Where to Stay When You Go Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:33:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Ruth Benny http://www.travelsavvymom.com/blog/family-travel/traveling-with-children-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-5395 Ruth Benny Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:31:58 +0000 http://www.travelsavvymom.com/?p=7447#comment-5395 This is true - to a lesser extent - in Hong Kong too. A lot of that attention does come from tourists from mainland China. Since the border opened up, we have hordes of said tourists. Even in my home of HK, it is commonplace to be photographed wherever we go and the kids get adoring smiles. I overheard a boy asking his mother why my children had blue eyes. He couldn't believe it. www.hongkongbabies.com This is true – to a lesser extent – in Hong Kong too. A lot of that attention does come from tourists from mainland China. Since the border opened up, we have hordes of said tourists.

Even in my home of HK, it is commonplace to be photographed wherever we go and the kids get adoring smiles.

I overheard a boy asking his mother why my children had blue eyes. He couldn’t believe it.

http://www.hongkongbabies.com

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]]> By: Kimberly http://www.travelsavvymom.com/blog/family-travel/traveling-with-children-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-5328 Kimberly Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:49:22 +0000 http://www.travelsavvymom.com/?p=7447#comment-5328 @ Emily. That’s a great story! This is why it’s so much fun to travel with kids – they’re so flexible. They learn that they get even more attention when they learn to greet in the local language and they do it with such joy, whereas we adults often worry about pronunciation, grammar, etc. We can certainly learn from them! @prizetastic – In Australia, you must be very used to attention from Asian tourists. I agree that it is sweet. As parents, we have truly learned to appreciate kid-friendly cultures as travel destinations; it makes things so much easier. @ Emily. That’s a great story! This is why it’s so much fun to travel with kids – they’re so flexible. They learn that they get even more attention when they learn to greet in the local language and they do it with such joy, whereas we adults often worry about pronunciation, grammar, etc. We can certainly learn from them!

@prizetastic – In Australia, you must be very used to attention from Asian tourists. I agree that it is sweet. As parents, we have truly learned to appreciate kid-friendly cultures as travel destinations; it makes things so much easier.

]]> By: Emily http://www.travelsavvymom.com/blog/family-travel/traveling-with-children-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-5323 Emily Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:49:27 +0000 http://www.travelsavvymom.com/?p=7447#comment-5323 oops, silly me. I think that's 'an yung' or jung maybe? My son knows more Korean than me. oops, silly me. I think that’s ‘an yung’ or jung maybe? My son knows more Korean than me.

]]> By: Emily http://www.travelsavvymom.com/blog/family-travel/traveling-with-children-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-5322 Emily Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:46:37 +0000 http://www.travelsavvymom.com/?p=7447#comment-5322 Brilliant! I flew Korean Air to Australia with my blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy when he was 20 months old. The Koreans loved him, especially when he started shouting out 'an young!' at everyone. On one leg of our journey, people started coming down from the front of the plane especially to see him and he got passed about twenty rows in front. Brilliant! I flew Korean Air to Australia with my blonde-haired, blue-eyed boy when he was 20 months old. The Koreans loved him, especially when he started shouting out ‘an young!’ at everyone. On one leg of our journey, people started coming down from the front of the plane especially to see him and he got passed about twenty rows in front.

]]> By: Prizetastic http://www.travelsavvymom.com/blog/family-travel/traveling-with-children-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-5319 Prizetastic Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:14:08 +0000 http://www.travelsavvymom.com/?p=7447#comment-5319 Oh this is so funny, here in Australia when you visit the Gold Coast in QLD there are always a lot of asian tourists. On our family holiday last month we were at one of the theme parks there when all of a sudden a group of asian tourists swarmed our littlest (yep, you guessed it, he has blonde hair and blue eyes!) They then stared in awe at our eldest 2 children who both look similar with blue eyes and blondish hair too! At first we were taken aback by it, but then just giggled to ourselves commenting about the photos of the kids that would end up overseas somewhere! It's intriguing that they find our kids so intriguing but sweet all the same. Oh this is so funny, here in Australia when you visit the Gold Coast in QLD there are always a lot of asian tourists. On our family holiday last month we were at one of the theme parks there when all of a sudden a group of asian tourists swarmed our littlest (yep, you guessed it, he has blonde hair and blue eyes!) They then stared in awe at our eldest 2 children who both look similar with blue eyes and blondish hair too!

At first we were taken aback by it, but then just giggled to ourselves commenting about the photos of the kids that would end up overseas somewhere! It’s intriguing that they find our kids so intriguing but sweet all the same.

]]> By: Sharlene http://www.travelsavvymom.com/blog/family-travel/traveling-with-children-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-5305 Sharlene Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:26:33 +0000 http://www.travelsavvymom.com/?p=7447#comment-5305 I have never been to Asia but we did once have a group of Korean tourists stop us so they could pose with our twins. They kept insisting boy/girl twins were extremely rare (actually they are the most common) and loved that they were blond with big eyes. Its kinda weird to think your kids are being shown to a bunch of people many thousand of miles away as some sort of oddity but it was flattering nonetheless I have never been to Asia but we did once have a group of Korean tourists stop us so they could pose with our twins. They kept insisting boy/girl twins were extremely rare (actually they are the most common) and loved that they were blond with big eyes. Its kinda weird to think your kids are being shown to a bunch of people many thousand of miles away as some sort of oddity but it was flattering nonetheless

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