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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not leave your 2yo home alone for a week for christmas! Holy crap, that is awful. He won’t know it’s Christmas, but the 5yo does and I can only imagine the number of times it will come up over the years that his parents left him alone for Christmas to go on vacation. If there were extenuating circumstances, like visiting a dying parent or sibling, I could see leaving him in an emergency.

If I were you, I’d cancel the whole trip. Maybe plan something for the spring when he will be older and maybe able to wear a mask better.[/quote]

Op here. The trip is largely non-refundable and we won’t have money or leave time for another trip until next Christmas. This is our one shot at a vacation this year.

Due to his developmental challenges, it is unlikely he will be compliant with a mask by spring regardless. We will have to plan on car trips for the next several years I think.

He wouldn’t be alone-this nanny has been in his life literally since the day he was born-she was with us at the hospital. [/quote]

Op, it sounds like you want to go. So just go. My parents left my 2 year old sister for 3 weeks to take me and my brother to Europe when we were teens (big age gap). Everyone was fine and no one mentions it as abandonment![/quote]

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