Couple yanks their two kids out of school to travel the world with them, have more quality family time: Go as far as we could go

An English couple has yanked their two boys out of school to travel the world as a family after feeling robbed of quality time together in the hustle-and-bustle of their old life.Emma Niblett, 36, said she and her husband, Dan, 40, rented out their West Yorkshire, England home and left for Bali in August with their two sons, Noah, 8, and Issac, 5.“We recovered from the COVID pandemic and felt [like] we were repeating the same cycle,” Emma Niblett told the UK-based outlet LeedsLive.Niblett said she and her husband decided to uproot their life when they realized they were spending most of their time cooped up in their home, focusing on little things like chores.They quickly realized it was robbing them of quality bonding time as a family.“We weren’t having time together as a family,” she said.The mother of two also noticed that her boys were slowly getting wrapped up in technology and wanted them to see life was much more than what was on their screens.“We wanted to see the boys in different cultures.They were spending more time on screens,” she told LeedsLive.Emma and Dan started conversing about traveling last Christmas but wanted to let their boys finish the school year before leaving. Niblett, who works remotely as a head of technology, took advantage of her job’s flexibility and did “something completely different.”“We decided to leave and go as far as we could go,” she said.The family then uprooted themselves and headed over 7,700 miles away from their home to live in Bali.She explained that the province of Indonesia was “safe, cost-effective and sunny” and seemed like an excellent place for her family to reconnect.“It’s 20% of what we were paying in the UK,” Niblett shared.She said the family could have three meals in Bali for about $40 to $50.However, the much cheaper cost of living wasn’t the only necessary requirement for the couple as parents.They still valued and wanted their sons to receive a formal education, so Nib...