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Gap year projects are no longer just the domain of college and university leavers looking for fun and independence before hitting the workplace. Nowadays the gap year market also caters to those taking sabbaticals from work, those who want a career change and even those that want to take their whole family along for the ride.

Actress Emma Thompson may be the nation’s darling, but she caused outrage in August 2010 when she said that she planned to take her daughter Gaia on a gap year around the world. Emma wants to start her gap year projects the moment Gaia finishes primary school next year. Although Emma may have the funds to provide her daughter with private tuition, her plans were brought to the attention of London’s Camden Council, who has the power to stop Emma and her husband, Greg, from taking their daughter with them on their gap year projects if they don’t feel the couple are tutoring her correctly.

There’s no doubt that young Gaia will have a fantastic experience, but many believe that she would most benefit from a gap year once she’s completed her education, when a year away could teach her independence, the value of money and many skills that would be beneficial to her future in the work place.

However, a new Channel Four series entitled My Family’s Crazy Gap Year shows that Emma isn’t alone in believing that a gap year would strongly benefit her child’s development and teach her some valuable life lessons. Like Emma, it is Rafia, the matriarch of the family in this series, who wants to take her three children out of private school and swap their conventional lives for a nomadic existence on the Himalayan steppes.

But it isn’t just families with young children that are being dragged halfway across the world. Once their children have flown the nest, parents often find that their older offspring are more than enthusiastic about inviting their folks with them on their gap year projects as something of a bonding experience.

After leaving home and living in Japan for a year, Sherry Ott wanted to take some time out doing gap year projects before returning to the workplace. All her friends already had full-time jobs and there was no chance of them taking a sabbatical this early on in their careers, so Sherry decided to instead take her father with her on her trip to the Annapurna Circuit. Her father was the perfect travel companion, except perhaps for the fact that he was 73 years old!

The Kareiga Game Reserve differs from the Shamwari Game Reserve as it tends to appeal to more mature clients seeking gap year projects. However that hasn’t stopped some visitors bringing their grown up children along for the ride. Chris and son Richard took their gap year projects together in order to share the experience, and it isn’t just fathers that get to travel with their offspring – many mums are sharing in the experience too.

While embarking on your gap year projects solo can teach you independence and the value of money, travelling with your family is a great bonding time and will provide you with memories and experiences that you can share for years to come.

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