to leave dd behind while we go away at christmas

[mehimandthegirls]

Dp suggested last night we go away abroad for Christmas. We have a 6 month old together, said it would be nice to surprise MIL who was out there.

I asked DD1 (18) if she wanted to come and DP would pay for her. She said she has no holidays left and it would mean not seeing her boyfriend over xmas. She said its fine she will spend it with her boyfriend.

DD1 works full time and has been away twice this year, girls holiday and away with her boyfriend. She is going Berlin later this year, Barbados in Feb and Cuba on a family holiday with us back end of next year so she has been away this year and plenty to look forward to.

But I feel really tight! Her dad will be in Thailand so she will have no parents in the country!

what do you think? bad parent of the year award??

My only concern would be what if her and the boyfriend split by then? She maybe needs a back up plan.
But its her choice

I think yabu sorry, I have to spend Christmas alone and it's horrible! Not having any holiday left doesn't equal saying no, really.

I think it's fine. Presumably she has no holiday left because she has been on/has booked all these other amazing holidays.

However, I agree you should have a plan b as Xmas is still 3 months away.

bet she can't wait for you to go op.

she's 18 and old enough to decide. at get age I was working all over Christmas as a student nurse.

she has a bf and his family/ her gps. she be fine.