Kara Thought: Hong Kong

Where else do you bring your child outside the country for the first time but in Hong Kong where Disneyland is!

When it opened, all the parents at the school I taught at were talking about it. They were planning to bring their children at seven - an age they thought would be young enough to enjoy an amusement park. For me I thought too that the age would be old enough to travel without the baby bag and asking to be carried.

So I planned for my son to go there at that age as well. However, I gave birth to my daughter a year before which made her only one year old at that time. So we decided to push it a little later since we had gone to Malaysia with the grandparents just two years before anyway where he enjoyed riding an airplane for the first time and Genting Highlands.

At the beginning of this year, my husband and I decided both kids were of the right age. My son was old enough to bring his own things and walk, but not too old not to enjoy Disneyland; and my daughter was old enough that we can ask her to bring her own things and walk. Both temperaments were more or less predictable so we could plan the schedule around it.

Anyway, parents will never really get it right with the age to do anything but the most important thing is the experience and bonding.