| Get Weird with Your Summer Day Trips | | | | | | Visit a Heavy Industry Site | | There was a time when a trip to a factory might have been part of a school curriculum. But the manufacturing industry is shrinking and, with it, interest in showing children where all the stuff their families buy comes from. This gives parents an opportunity. Manufacturers, understanding their place in the world, should be open to showing a kid around. Often, they’re looking to keep the future alive by showing kids how cool it is in a modern machine shop, on the manufacturing floor, or in the product testing and engineering areas. |
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| | | | Hit Up A Waste Treatment Plant | | Kids love poop. And pee. Because of this there is practically nothing better than seeing where all their poop and pee goes. This is one of those municipal spaces that are open to citizens dropping by (you’re paying for it after all) but doesn’t quite have the pull of the firehouse. Still, it’s a cool space, if not necessarily one filled with pretty fragrances. |
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| | | | Go to a Brewery | | There’s a lot of fascinating stuff that goes down in the process of making beer. There is heat and steam and grain. There are huge stainless-steel vessels. There are microbes working hard to make alcohol. It’s like alchemy, really. And that’s what your kid gets out of a brewery tour: a connection to history, a lesson in science and a better understanding of what you’re putting in your face every night. Is it bad they don’t get to enjoy the tasting part? Nah. |
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