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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My inlaws cousins routinely take their 4 and 5 year olds for 2 weeks in a big rental house in Tuscany or France to see other relatives (who live in erurope). And pay for their siblings trips since they have the $$. They have done this since the kids were tiny and everyone loves the big family trip. It all depends on your attitude to family time. [/quote]

You are describing a regularly scheduled trip that their siblings and kids opt into. There may be some years where not everyone makes it and that's fine because it's an annual thing and of course sometimes things come up with kids (unlike a once in a lifetime milestone birthday trip). Also, a trip to the same part of the world on a regular basis means that the families involved have the routine down. The older kids will be familiar with the trips from prior years, the adults will know how to handle the younger kids from prior practice and trial and error. I bet the first few trips didn't involve kids at all, or only one or two babies, and it grew from there. That makes it a lot easier.

OP is talking about a one time trip unlike any this family has ever taken before, involving a wide range of kids and ages, involving potential destinations that ALL involve huge time changes, and going for a fairly long period of time, when this family is clearly used to shorter, domestic visits and just has no idea how they kids are going to handle such a big change. It's totally reasonable that OP might not be responding the same as your in-laws' cousins' siblings do to what is actually a really different situation.[/quote]

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