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Mumsnet, please talk me down. On holiday with my kids.

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mycatisannoying · 20/07/2022 12:05

Girls, aged 21, 16 and 13. And they're really fucking me off.
I seem to be the only single parent at this resort, and all around me there's happy families enjoying their holiday.
I'm naturally a fairly positive and cheery person, so believe me I am trying. I've been looking forward to this holiday for so long and have been really looking forward to it. I'm not a deluded fool though. I knew we'd have our moments. I adore my children but probably wouldn't choose to spend this much time with them, in two rooms.
I am fed up of managing their moods, their spats, trying to get them out the room at a reasonable time (2pm today).
I've just told them - calmly - that I won't be doing this again, and that future holidays can be taken with their father (money no object to him). That if they wanted to stay in on their phones, we could have stayed home.
I'm doing my best and it's going to shit. I should add that it hasn't been ALL bad. I do seem to be catastrophising though, probably because it meant a lot to me that we all had a good time.
Please help with some words of wisdom so that we can enjoy our last few days together.

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mycatisannoying · 21/07/2022 19:52

Marvellousmadness · 21/07/2022 16:25

The 21 yo and 16 yo should have stayed behind. Like im serious. Yabu for bringing them and then complaining they suck
Of course the suck. They are old enough to do their own holidays. Teenagers /young adolescents suck. 😅

Do you think young people suck? Your reply was a little ambiguous on that Grin

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InChocolateWeTrust · 24/07/2022 21:51

From about age 16/17 not many people I know still went on holiday with parents and there's a reason!

Mum & dad went off to Italy with friends. Big sis and I (20 & 18) went off to some crappy lodge somewhere in the UK with friends. Everyone was happy

Ohthatsexciting · 25/07/2022 07:54

InChocolateWeTrust · 24/07/2022 21:51

From about age 16/17 not many people I know still went on holiday with parents and there's a reason!

Mum & dad went off to Italy with friends. Big sis and I (20 & 18) went off to some crappy lodge somewhere in the UK with friends. Everyone was happy

Around my area (affluent SE town on outskirts of London), most definitely do still go on holiday with parents at that age.

usually because to beautiful hotels and / or long haul far flung places or adventure holidays.

mine at private, and my son’s best friend is doing a safari tour in SA and then off for a week in Zanzibar! 6, 16, 26, 106….. who would turn down that?!

Ohthatsexciting · 25/07/2022 07:55

But if the holiday on offer was sharing a family room with your parents and younger brother for a week in Tenerife in a 3 star hotel on a camp bed… it might not be so appealing for a 17 year old.

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