Not taking kids on holiday

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Has anyone decided not to take their children on holiday as a single parent? Even more so with the recent tragedy in the news about the two young children on holiday it’s just kind of confirmed it even more to me that it’s a bad idea and I don’t feel id be able to safely watch them on my own. (I know they weren’t single parents but still) how do you get over not going on holiday again? It’s already been 15 Years since I last went abroad and the uk is definitely not the same (sorry)

Why do you think being abroad is less safe than being in UK ?

Im half Greek Cypriot, parents have been divorced for a long time, but both have lived in Cyprus for decades without any incident, though my cousin just lost her summer house in the recent forest fires.

I rode a motorcycle solo through Europe.
i rode about sixty thousand miles, reseed the arctic circle then went into Russia. I stayed in some weird and wonderful places, camped behind a billboard on a motorway in Finland when I could not find a place to stay and spent lot of nights wild camping in woods

Im just and average stockily built 5ft 10in male, lots of things could have happened to me, but I never had one incident.

Just when I though I had laid down my crash helmet for the last time, my brother and two best mates when bought motorcycles again. We are now contemplating a bike trip to Morocco….we are all in our sixties!

Life is for living not fearing and preserving!

Because it is

Are you taking the p* on purpose OP. Stop making excuses for not being able to look after your own kids. You dont WANT to take them on holiday and are now using "sen" on top as another excuse. Weve never felt more unsafe abroad than in the UK. Much safer in many countries to be honest. The problem is you cant control or look after your own kids which is worrying whether abroad or at home. Stay in your house with them where its "safe"

Will do thanks 🤩 🙏

It really isn’t more dangerous abroad, that’s just your perspective from presumably not having left your local area, your ‘safe space’, for several years. The dangers where you live are known, further afield they’re unknown, but that doesn’t mean there’s more of them.

In a few years time they won’t want to go on holiday with you. Enjoy them while you can.

We do travel 🙂 we go around the uk and holiday in the uk and that is hard work itself, this is specially abroad though and yes there are more dangers I can think of quite a few.

Like?

Pools? The sea? As already mentioned they wouldn’t be interested in a city break with lots of walking or sight seeing

Op I haven’t read the full thread but I have two Sen children and am a single mum. In the past I have chosen to take them on holiday and I’ve chosen to go without them. One has an EHCP and the local authority have not found a school that can meet their needs, and they both live with me 365 days a year. They’re actually much easier than many Sen children and I don’t have a bad life - it’s just very dull having to spend every day of my life putting them first so I probably have 10 nights a year away from them - in three or four stints rather than a long holiday.

They don’t see their father so they are with me every day so no way to have a holiday without them

They dont have to go in a pool or in the sea. Teach your kids to swim too ffs. Would you take them to DLP?

The UK is literally an island surrounded by sea 🙈

They have Sen oh I forgot you don’t believe in that 😂

We live in London.

So what!!! Why are you even asking then fgs. Bore off

Sen kids cant learn to swim? 🤣 or leave the country. Poor kids

Come again

you’re talking about the dangers of pools and the sea?

It is odd that your children all seem to have very severe SEN but you didnt mention this in your Op

But then you clarify that even if the children didn’t have any SEN you still would not take them abroad

so I don’t understand why you keep ramming the point that your children have SEN when you have been explicit that it’s irrelevant to your decision not to take them abroad anyway

But you’ve said SEN or no SEN you would never take them abroad because of the… “dangers”

So surely no need to repeatedly shoe horn in to the thread

I just took mine on caravan or camping holidays. They were great fun!

I specifically referring to the teaching them to swim, not all Sen child can learn to swim HTH!