To think he is our child and we will manage just fine Thankyou and have fun as well

[Driftingthoughlife]

We are going abroad for 2 weeks on Monday me my DH and five year old DS.
The two times we have been before with DS grandparents have come as well. This time it will be just the three of us.
The amount of people saying we won’t manage well without grandparents and we will find it hard work with DS
DS is what I would call a normal (whatever that means) five year old boy.
We are fully prepaired for the four hour flight with loads to do and also brought loads of games for DS to play with in the pool and on the beach. There is also a kids club if DS wants to go
I know he will drive is mad at times as all five year olds do but aibu to think we will be ok. We are after all his parents and quite like him

What a load of nonsense one 5 year old on holiday with 2 parents
Do people really think that?
I take my 4 boys on holiday on my own
Tell them to stop being so ridiculous and change the subject

I had to reread your post to make sure you hadn’t said 5 month, but you did say 5 years!

Of course you will be fine-what an odd thing for people to say or think otherwise?!

I’m a reception teacher and manage to cope with thirty 4-5 year olds single-handedly for whole days!

Haha some people can be so funny about things!

You'll be absolutely fine!

We went to France with 3 kids in the car ranging from 2-12... I had friends who thought I was 'So brave!'

I was going to Brittany not Antarctica!

I also took my 7 year old to Greece for two weeks completely on my own - what a shocker that was! She's 20 now and we both still say it was the best holiday we ever had!

Have a lovely time OP.

It is crazy!
I took my 2 to the zoo in the uk. What would be a 15min drive was 2 busses each way. Of course the buses were late meaning we were stuck by a 60mph road for maybe 30min at a time which is not ideal with a hyper 3yo. So much worse than taking a generally calm 5yo on holiday.

ZippyBungleandGeorge , the thought of 5 1-year olds just made my bum pucker and my ovaries shrivel. 5 of them- at once! 1 5-year old is awesome though, you will have a brilliant time!

Is your DM usually this stressed about life? Her worries are extreme, could she be struggling to cope?

Can't understand why people thing you'd not cope. Is it because they know you've only been with grandparents before maybe?

We've been away with Dd a number of times a year since she was a baby and she's now a teen - various different places and different types of resorts - never been an issue and we've never needed to use kids clubs, etc. We've been away mainly just the three of us at least for our main holiday. Been away with family and friends as well at tunes but they've never been taken along as childcare for Dd!

The amount of people saying we won’t manage well without grandparents and we will find it hard work with DS

Is there a backstory? Just if it was just one or two people saying it, then I'd think they had an agenda, but if there's lots then maybe there's more to it than face value.

I mean we've got 3 dc, and very rarely gone on holiday with others, my friend's a single mum with at one point 4 under 7yo and she still enjoyed their holidays.

The amount of people saying we won’t manage well without grandparents and we will find it hard work with DS

I agree, if this isn’t just the GP’s saying it because they want to come then I’d be a bit concerned about how I was appearing to others. Because 1 child to 2 parents is a complete doddle.

They sound totally rediculous. Of course you'll manage without more adults around to help. Next comment, laugh and say, Don't be so silly of course we can manage our own child.

We've taken our kids abroad nerly every year for the last ten years. Not too stressful in general. But there is no way I could cope with the stress of going abroad with grandparents!!!

Unless this is a typo and you in fact have five one year olds,

So this isn’t about “people” in general: “it’s just three sets of people really - both sets of grandparents and a couple of friends”

Your parents sound overanxious: don’t pander to it.

You say your friend doesn’t enioy holidaying with his DC, which explains his view.

Your ratios are way better than mine
My family is 1:2 soon to be 1:3 not 2:1

When it was 2:1 everything was basically a piece of piss compared to now!

They don't rate you much as parents
Are you not offended?

Very strange thing to say and even stranger thing to be bothered about

Two parents, one child. Piece of cake