half term visits

[LaLoose]

Can I get some opinions, please? Put aside the question of whether or not we will be in a two-week 'circuit break', and assume we will be free to come and go as we please during half term. Should we go and visit my parents? I am concerned that, now the kids are back at school, it may be exposing them to too much risk of infection.

So, what are you planning to do regarding visiting grandparents, please, and why?

Thanks!

[covetingthepreciousthings]

Do the grandparents have a say? They may feel it's worth the risk to be able to spend time with their grandchildren

I think this has to be taken into the considerations, at the end of the day, I think they can decide whether they want to accept the risk or not.
We are continuing to see grandparents because otherwise they'd be completely isolated from anyone due to no social circles, and that isn't the life they, or us, want them to have for the foreseeable future. I think in the beginning of lockdown - 6-12 weeks seemed reasonable, hard but reasonable to go without seeing loved elderly family, but now there is no clear end in sight, it's not so clear cut I don't think.

If this was the last year or so of my life, I know I would rather be surrounded by family than stuck in a house on my own if I could choose. I realise there are many many people who are in difficult situations with care homes etc who aren't so lucky to be able to choose or decide to see loved ones.

[MaryShelley1818]

My Parents and PIL are still providing childcare for DS (age 2) one day a week each (since end of August). DS is the light of their life, my mother has said she'd rather die than spend any more time not seeing him.