DS's school has just announced they are doing a grandparents day event. The children will be welcoming their grandparents to school and giving tours of their classrooms and the school will do tea/coffee and the children can spend time with people close to them. Parents are not invited and as it's a local school (for local people!) there are so many grandparents interested they'll have to issue tickets. Close family friends in a grandparent-style role may come if a grandparent isn't available.
DS has four living grandparents, which is lucky. BUT.
My mum is carer for my dad with cancer. They live in Ireland.
DH's dad is carer for his mum with dementia. They also live in Ireland.
None of them can travel and we keep up relationships by being the ones who do all the shuttling back and forth.
We have no close family friends here that DS would know. We both work. Most of our close friendships fell away when we had children, as the first of the group to do so. Most of our friends now are other parents or colleagues, but again not people DS would know well or at all.
There is no one available for DS. And the kicker is, it's happening on his birthday.
He's turning 6. He's going to ask me why all his friends grandparents came and his didn't, because he's nearly 6, the school is making a big deal of it and it will be very obvious. We're one of the very few couples here where neither of us is British, so most kids have someone on at least one side.
I'm thinking of keeping him off school and doing something fun for his birthday instead. Is it a daft idea? Should I speak to the teacher? am I being pfb about my pfb?
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To keep him off school when he's totally fine?
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TheVeryHungryDieter · 21/09/2018 11:12
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