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[quote=Anonymous]It's simply no.

I would plan to try to get there as a family for a visit- but would not let them travel alone.

My dad's new wife suggested this (another country where my family is) and she had no experience raising children, and with that combined with my dad's lack of patience and slack safety (thought as toddlers that they didn't need carseats or that he would just pick up some used ones at a neighbourhood yard sale), it was such a no. I was not worried about offending. When my dad started to push it, I pointedly asked him how many times my mum let us stay alone with family elsewhere, when she was alive and he knew it was none. "Sorry, I am just overprotective like my mother" was my reply.

My inlaws are wanting to take my kids on overseas trips now (ages 9 through 14), and while they are more organized and took their other older grandkids on trips, DH and I are just not there yet, so for now we all travel together. Inlaws pay for the kids and we pay our tickets/costs, or none of us go.[/quote]

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