A multigenerational holiday has its peculiar advantages. If your adult children have only recently left home, it may be the only way you can guarantee seeing them. If you’ve got children who have children, it may be the only time you get to see your grandchildren without actually babysitting. But a successful multigenerational holiday – lively but not exhausting, stimulating but not fraught – requires a certain amount of strategic planning, and the foresight to avoid some basic pitfalls. Here are six tips to get you through.
1. Don’t restrict yourselves to family. The ideal multigenerational holiday includes an extended social circle: friends, your kids’ friends, godparents, whatever. Not only do they provide fresh perspectives or new topics of conversation, but their presence will ensure your own family is better behaved.
