Reply to How to avoid the grandparents "offer" to take the kid on vacation?

Forum Index » Family Relationships

Reply to "How to avoid the grandparents "offer" to take the kid on vacation?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]DH and I are on the same page that we don't trust the grandparents to take the 4 year old to the beach for 4 days.

There are concerns about not being responsible about things like sunscreen (our kid couldn't be any whiter).

They would be sharing one hotel room - grandma, grandpa, our 4 year old, and an 8 year old cousin) and our kid is a terror if he's up much past 8pm and they aren't quiet or accommodating to that.

They in general have expressed that they don't need to be hand on as grandparents, which makes me feel uncomfortable when they want to lounge and there's a great big body of water.

They often talk about things in front of the kids that we ask them not to talk about (body image stuff, adult language...generally just inappropriate).

The fact is that the kids will absolutely have fun. But we have massive concerns about boundaries and safety. There have been other very recent MAJOR head butting over family values, and we are uncomfortable with the idea. How do we get out of it without looking like a-holes, other than just claiming we are busy every single weekend with things that we can't cancel?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics