Capable Child

As we entered Boston Children’s Museum and saw the most amazing, three storey climbing platform with children crawling all over it, we knew that we were in for a treat. Little Lady headed straight for the structure and we had some difficulty persuading her to come off it so that we could explore the rest of the museum. There were three floors to explore and we headed to the top to begin. The construction zone was our first stop and it was clearly very popular. Children could build with all types of material. There were trucks, cranes, tunnels and ramps to investigate. At home, Little Lady rarely chooses to play with her construction sets but as we all started building, she got involved too. It was a brilliant place for promoting STEM. Unfortunately, we had difficulty persuading my husband to leave!   We headed next to a complete Japanese house from Kyoto. This is not what I had been expecting to visit in central Boston! We loved walking around with our shoes off on th...

Hitting New York as a family, we were full of excitement and anticipation. We were waiting outside a store for it to open at 9am! We took selfies and videos of the famous sites in Times Square. But soon after that legs were tired. Temperatures were rising and humidity was close to 50%. It was with a sigh of relief that we entered the cool of National Geographic Encounter. Little people will only walk so far and look at so many famous buildings. Ocean Odyssey is an immersive experience that uses the latest technology to take you under the ocean. Our expectations were high as we ‘took the dive’ to our first location- the shallows of the South Pacific. Fish swam under our feet and adults and children jumped around as the creatures interacted with us. Jellyfish responded as we moved our arms and got up close. We loved the fact that Ocean Odyssey isn’t a show that you sit back and watch but an experience that you can interact with. Those tired little legs suddenly weren’t tired anymore...