Holidays abroad - or lack of them, impact on child

purpleshoes_2

Oh and as for very cheap airfares, speaking as someone who has just booked a holiday, I was lucky in that I got a fare for £100 return to go to spain. A few months later the price would have been £200 each way and thats just for one person. Not all low cost airlines end up low cost by the time you have finished.

You might get a £30 one way fare if you are lucky, sometimes its more likely to be £150, could easily add up to the best part of £1000 to go for a week somewhere if you are a family of 3.

If you don't have that £1000 then why should you bankrupt yourself just so some snotty nosed teacher can get the essay she wants?

purpleshoes_2

Trolling is the word for it alright.

purpleshoes_2

Never in a million years would anyone I know who is a teacher adopt a snotty nosed attitude and make someone feel bad because they havent taken their kid abroad.

What a load of utter judgemental cobblers. The OP made it very clear in the opening post why there hadn't been holidays abroad.

No one, no one including anyone on this thread should make the OP feel bad for not having foreign holidays when they couldn't afford them.

*max*

FWIW, I'd sooner take a child to visit Auschwitz and Krakow than to go camping in Normandy, if your aim is to "broaden their mind". A Normandy campsite in summer, you might as well be in the UK.

Callie22

TBeckett100 wrote: »

what I mean to say is that if the child is 10+, if the family couldn't have scraped together £1000 over all those years then it is a bit of a shame for the child. It isn't wrong to assume in this modern day that a child would have been abroad.

Sometimes it's not just about money. We never went abroad when I was a child because we always holidayed with my grandparents and my grandmother wouldn't fly. After a particularly bad experience on a ferry to Ireland my mum wouldn't sail either. That kind of limits your holiday options ...

ognum

TBeckett100 wrote: »

what I mean to say is that if the child is 10+, if the family couldn't have scraped together £1000 over all those years then it is a bit of a shame for the child. It isn't wrong to assume in this modern day that a child would have been abroad.

Oh dear, what a short sighted view of the world you have, swaddled in your Mulberry outfits.

Clearly you have never been affected by death of a parent/sibling, loss of livelihood, long term illness or lack of future prospects.

When my children were six they had never been abroad, we had great holidays and happy times having a week in Wales. We had no money for taking them anywhere else.

They have now as adults travelled more extensively than most, one has lived and worked in several countries the other has trekked through Butan, climbed Kilimanjaro spent time in Patagonia worked a sabbatical in New Zealand as well as much more.

Just because you can't aford to travel as a child doesn't mean you can't travel and make a contribution to other countries as you grow older.

Are we supposed to applaud you for touting your 6 year old around on your cosited glimpses of other countries, well I don't. Tell me about it when she has made a contribution to helping someone in need in another country not viewed it from the comfort of a three and a half star hotel, all inclusive I'm sure, you wouldn't want to eat with the natives would you!

theoretica

TBeckett100 wrote: »

what I mean to say is that if the child is 10+, if the family couldn't have scraped together £1000 over all those years then it is a bit of a shame for the child. It isn't wrong to assume in this modern day that a child would have been abroad.

But maybe, knowing their own child, there is a better use for what money they have - the responsibility of owning a pet, music lessons, sport clubs, own garden or car for trips... It may not be wrong to assume that children in that school have been abroad. It is wrong to be rude about perfectly reasonable parenting choices.

gettingtheresometime

TBeckett100 wrote: »

what I mean to say is that if the child is 10+, if the family couldn't have scraped together £1000 over all those years then it is a bit of a shame for the child. It isn't wrong to assume in this modern day that a child would have been abroad.

Well when you assume something you make an !!! out of you and me

gettingtheresometime

TBeckett100 wrote: »

When I was 16 I asked granny if she had ever been abroad. She had never. Every year since I have tried to drag her somewhere. However she expects the local newsagent to stock TV Times on a Tuesday and serve Shepherds Pie on demand. She never grasped the fact that foreign people don't watch Corination Street and that they may have their own language programmes

So instead of spending your vast wealth in taking her somewhere where she would enjoy the experience you spend it on 'dragging' her somewhere.

Wise choice.

gettingtheresometime

TBeckett100 wrote: »

Actually, we plan to ground her in a few years by taking her to a deprived country. However, there aren't many 5 star hotels in Wales

And if it keeps the likes of you away then thank the Lord!