What I Learned From Travelling with My Son in 2010

It's been an amazing year: we traveled continents, moved continents, and have the nerve to still be making travel plans. Here's what globe-trotting with a 2 year old (as of Dec. 6th 2010) has taught me:

• Kids have an amazing capacity for readjustment. Its the parents that end up getting stuck in rigidity. 

• Thanks to our travels, I can walk into any restaurant and find something that Karam will eat. His palette is polygamous. It's completely liberating. 

• After surviving our Air China debacle, I believe we as a family can handle anything and this little critter has a tremendous capacity to cope.

• If it's night-time in his head, he will sleep. No matter where, how or on what. 

• Children don't see differences in skin color, economic class, or culture, they only see people and the tangibles: things they want to put into their mouths and things they don't. As an adult it's worth pulling yourself out from all the analysis and adopting this very simple view of the world once in a world. 

• I think we are on the way to teaching Karam to find goodness in everything. He won't be one of those kids that goes to a third world country and only sees the poverty. He will search for a deeper richness.

•  I am looking forward to seeing the world through this eyes as he grows older. 

Thanks for your readership in this wonderful 2010 year. In 2011, Momaboard will be re-launching with a bit of a face-lift if you will, and we are adding features such as forums and product reviews so that we give voice to all of you in the growing Momaboard community. And of course, we will still have the travel tales of Karam and Kaamna (and Rohit). As always, "fan" our facebook page (facebook.com/momaboard) and follow us on twitter @momaboard.

See you next year and thanks for your support this year!
Kaamna Bhojwani-Dhawan