In a few months time, I will be taking my 2 DC (8 and 4, so yr3 and reception) away for the weekend with two other mums and their dc, 6 kids between us. Children and mums all really good friends. It will be a long drive but worth it I am sure.
My two friends are planning on taking their children out of school on the Friday so that they can leave straight after school on Thursday and have a longer break. I'm not really comfortable with taking my children out of school for the day, but am not sure how to broach this with my friends as I don't want them to think that I am judging their choices- it is of course up to them how they deal with this within their own families, it just doesn't feel right for me. My dc have already had 1 and 3 legitimate days off respectively so far this school year with bugs and so on and I am not convinced that having a day off just because we are going away is reasonable.
I would prefer to go up the Friday night straight from school. This would mean a much shorter break for us and a 3.5hr drive for basically one night and 1.5 days (whilst we would have 2 nights there, we wouldn't arrive until 8pm the first and so it would be bedtime for the children, then leave after lunch on the Sunday) Would also cause lots of questioning from my dc- why are their friends not at school and have gone already? Why couldn't they?
Also, I know its only 1 day but I do not want my dc to have an unauthorised absence on their school record. Am not sure that they would authorise it because of the few days off they've had so far, and if they said "no sorry we can't approve it" I would feel rather silly if I then took them anyway.
This all sounds quite petty when it is written down- AIBU and possibly a bit precious? Should I just take my kids out of school for the day and let them enjoy a fantastic weekend with their friends? Or is my gut feeling worth listening to and we will go up on the Friday?
I really do not enjoy making decisions!
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BigRubberPlant · 18/02/2013 22:35
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