Reply to So are we to never have a husband-wife trip without kids for another 14 years?

Forum Index » Relationship Discussion (non-explicit)

Reply to "So are we to never have a husband-wife trip without kids for another 14 years?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My parents never took a weekend away just them.[/b] That is a newer trend among the affluent and those with young local family. We took one vacation without our kids and our younger one cried for us. Didn’t vacation without the kids for another 15 years.[/quote]

Mine did. I'm 46. This isn't a "trend."[/quote]

I’m 48 and I don’t know one family that took a weekend away trip without their kids from my childhood at all. This was not a thing if your parents did it was certainly an exception. It is a trend that more younger people are doing it now, but in the past, people did not have the time or the resources to take weekend away trips without their kids.[/quote]

I basically agree with this but it was also not that uncommon in previous generations to send kids for extended stays with families.  My mom who was a kid during the Great Depression spent most of the summer every year with her grandparents who lived by a lake in the country, because that was considered safer and more healthy than letting her wander around their quasi industrial small city where she grew up.  
Anyway, if we are going to get all judgy on this…. There’s a huge difference between situations where your kid can spend a week with loving grandma, or ones where you’re just hiring some random stranger to watch your kids.  I think if you have the right setup, it’s great for kids to get that extra bonding time with relatives.  I never did it because my parents were very elderly, but my older siblings did it and it was great for everyone.  
[/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