Hi, I have just had a lovely holiday with my parents and 7 year old son.
But my parents are difficult to go away with because basically they need alot of care. My Dad has quite advanced dementia and my Mum is physically very frail. An example of this is I left them alone for about 15 minutes - in that time my Dad decided to wash his feet in the basin in our apartment and got his foot stuck. He fell down badly nearly breaking the basin and fell on my Mum hurting her hand quite badly. On the holiday he thought he'd lost his medication, his money, his credit cards etc - all found luckily...
Most of the time on the holiday though I was looking after the three of them, it was lovely.
But I had an argument with my Mum over leaving a 'moskill' burning all night in our flat. The flat was air conditioned meaning that the windows and doors all had to be kept shut all the time and I felt that the moskill was a fire hazard not to mention toxic in an enclosed environment. They slow burn for several hours giving off fumes but mostly I don't like something slowly burning away because of a potential fire especially with my son sleeping there. The row was because she told me she put it out each night before going to sleep and on the last night admitted that she'd lied and left it burning!