By MIA FREEDMAN
You’re Beyonce and when you visit Paris, you can book a private tour of the Louvre so you can walk around in peace. You are happy about this because it means you and your husband Jay-Z can take your 2-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy, to see some of the most famous paintings in the world.
Except Blue doesn’t care about the Mona Lisa. She wants to play with the air vent in the floor. So you take pictures of that instead because it’s adorable.
Source: beyonce.com
Source: Beyonce.com
But Social Media are not happy about this. Social Media feel you should not be taking photos of yourselves or your kid in a place like The Louvre. Social Media think you should be experiencing this famous art museum in a different, better, less frivolous way.
Social Media has clearly never taken a child to a historical monument.
I have. And it’s half a day of my life I will never get back. A couple of weeks ago we were lucky enough to be in Italy for our first European Family Vacation. Starting in Rome, I was excited about the prospect of taking our kids (aged 6,8 and 17) to see all the things.
We started with the Colosseum. We also ended with the Colosseum.
What can I tell you….. I have come to the conclusion that children and tourist attractions are not compatible. Not my children anyway. My teenager, of course, was awesome and totally into it. But the little ones not so much.
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Some are underestimating the impact that surroundings and experiences have on children - sometimes they cannot remember specific incidences but experiences shape how they think and see the world. My niece travelled at 7 years - Italy, France, Rome, England, US and visited many, many, many Museums and art galleries. She is now a teenager and has a pure love for history and can name every king and queen there ever was and is warning to the idea of teaching history as well as another occupation. Opened up her mind and the way she views things as well - not everyone has our first world problem of misbehaving in a museum!
It's just a shame the louvre was closed to others while Blue played on the air vent!