to think grandparents should take all children out?

[popperdoodles]

It is my dh I suppose that feels more strongly about this than me. I can't decide , hence why asking the wisdom of mumsnet.

Boys have teacher training day today and dh parents asked if they could take them out for the day. Only they only intending on taking out our 9 and 6 year olds leaving our 2 year old with me. This is not a problem for me I am a cm so will carrying on as normal however dh thinks it's really unfair to leave 2 year old behind and I feel a bit uncomfortable that he has basicly told them they have to bring him too. 2 year old would be gutted as they all trotted off but would get over it.

What do you reakon is it reasonable to expect grandparents to take all of them or not at all?

By the way they are going to a wildlife park so 2 year old would LOVE it.

it's common for grandparents to find three - and quite often two - too much of a handful. A 9 and 6 yr old are very manageable, a 2 yr old is not. Can't you do somehting speciasl with 2 yr old?

I think it's fair enough

Personally I'm shit with this little kid stage, ages 2-6.

I'll be glad to see the back of it.

Can't imagine jumping up and down to take on three of my own grandkids at once, tbh.

Two of them and the baby are already doing my nut and I can only imagine how short on patience I'll be when I get older.

Personally I'm shit with this little kid stage, ages 2-6.

I'll be glad to see the back of it.

Can't imagine jumping up and down to take on three of my own grandkids at once, tbh.

Two of them and the baby are already doing my nut and I can only imagine how short on patience I'll be when I get older.

Did they have a nice time?

YANBU

They could take one at a time, for special time with grandparents and each do something nice; taking turns. This is what my cousin does as she has 4 girls aged 2-9 and it would be too much for grandparents to take all four at once.

I don't think it's fair to take two of the three IMO.

They don't have to take any of them out. At all. Ever.

If I had kids who tried to dictate the terms of my taking them out then, yeah, they'd be hiring a sitter when they wanted relief, tbh.

isittooearly
then we agree.

hoping grandparents help is fine.
expecting them to and then demanding that they take all of them is not OK.

Well it seems they all had a nice time. Also seems 6 year old was the one who got tired and a bit whingy if anyone. I would never demand or expect them to do anything with dcs. I guess we are very lucky that they want to and are able to.
Mil insisted they were all well behaved and it was a good day.
I don't think dh was right to push them into taking little one as well but as it turns out all was fine and no harm done. They want dh to go over and sort out their tv/freeview/dvd stuff at the weekend ( they are truely rubbish with technology, and no matter how many million times dh tells them how to work it they still manage to screw it all up) so that's karma for you! Will take him ages to sort it all out and try and teach them how to use it again.

But then that's what families are about isn't it? Doing things for each other etc.