Would you go on holiday without your children

onlyroz

PGL actually looks really good. I can see how a good compromise might be to send the kids off to PGL for a week while mum and dad go for a week doing activities of their choice. I'm still uncomfortable with the idea of leaving the kids with granny while mum and dad swan off to the med though.

CH27

moomoomama27 wrote: »

Upset, as in a little tearful when they have left, don't try and paint me as some bubble wrapping parent who wails at the school gates LMAO! I just don't like it when they are not with me, but have never restricted what they do, and I keep my tears and anxieties to myself, or share with my husband out of their earshot!

They have been on many camps, residentials and foreign trips with school I've not ever given them anxieties about how I would feel. Having a 17 year old who is already talking about uni, I encourage her all the way, I would not stop her, but it's ok to miss your child!!

I think you did that yourself with your own post :rotfl:

Mojisola

moomoomama27 wrote: »

As a parent I wuldn't want to go on a guide camp, but I would be upset they were going away, as I always have been when any of my three go on a school residential.

moomoomama27 wrote: »

Why?

Is it now not ok to miss your children when they go away on school trips?!!

There's a world of difference between 'missing' and 'being upset'.

I miss my OH when he works away but I'm not upset while he's away and the same applied when the kids were off doing their own thing.

Andy_89

My parents did since I was 16. And fair play to them, they have earned it.

I would personally be dubious about it if they were any younger.

quidsy

My ds (7) has sleep overs longer than the proposed break for the op & her oh. They have already had a family holiday so the daughter isn't missing out but mums & dads are people too & sometimes need a break & time to rekindle & recharge.

missbiggles1

onlyroz wrote: »

PGL actually looks really good. I can see how a good compromise might be to send the kids off to PGL for a week while mum and dad go for a week doing activities of their choice. I'm still uncomfortable with the idea of leaving the kids with granny while mum and dad swan off to the med though.

That's exactly what we did for about 8 years in a row - he had fun, we did galleries.

missbiggles1

moomoomama27 wrote: »

Why?

Is it now not ok to miss your children when they go away on school trips?!!

I must apologise, I seem to have misread your post and thought you meant you went away on the school trips with them!:o

Brighton_belle

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I must apologise, I seem to have misread your post and thought you meant you went away on the school trips with them!:o

So did I missbiggles.

moomoomama27

CH27 wrote: »

I think you did that yourself with your own post :rotfl:

How, by saying I was upset when they went off on their school trips?

How is that being a bubble wrapping wailing parent. I went home had a little cry and soon got over it :0 Didn't stop me thinking about them and missing them! What an hysterical parent I am :rotfl:

moomoomama27

missbiggles1 wrote: »

I must apologise, I seem to have misread your post and thought you meant you went away on the school trips with them!:o

Only once, but that was becuase I was a TA in my sons class lol!

No I know perfectly when to give them their space and let them thrive, and become independant