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)

I think you’d be better of hiding the thread

it will get comments because it is unusual that someone will never take their NT or ND child abroad because of “dangers” and it would seem that you’re antagonised by posts.

I was agreeing with you - that best you don’t take your children abroad because what it quite acute and generalised anxiety around foreign “danger”. Sounds like a recipe for disaster if you did go.

😁

Pleased you’re ending up feeling happier than at the start of the thread. No one has been able to advise you how to “come to terms with it”, but perhaps the discussion generally has made you more at peace with your wise decision 👍

Thanks hun got that already on the other group I posted on 👍

Would you go abroad with a friend OP without your children?

No

So your thread title could feasibly have been

Anyone else so fearful of foreign dangers that they will travel abroad again?

No that’s because I have no one to leave them with, and even if I did (which I don’t) I would feel guilty about it anyway so I wouldn’t do it.

so If no children, you would go abroad on holiday with a friend?

Yes, this post was specifically about taking children abroad alone I would take them if I had a partner and wasn’t going on my own with them just like I would go abroad if I didn’t have children.

can you identify the “dangers”you’re worried about OP? And not related specifically to SEN children because your view applies to children full stop stop.

Not going over it tbh, the children who drowned there was no mention of Sen and the young girl who drowned at water world the other day again no mention, not going over it all again just that I wouldn’t feel safe or confident on my own.

Ok so swimming
if you had NT they would presumably be able to swim op.

you never travel to the coast in the Uk? Never go swimming in a pool with your kids?

The children who drowned could swim.. even the dad jumped in to try to save them, the sea is too strong, and no we don’t go swimming as we are not allowed due to the ratio of adults vs children most pools have rules on adults per child for safety reasons.

So you never take the children to a place in Uk near a pool? You never go to the UK coast or a body of water? You never read the stories of drownings in UK pools and beaches

where do you take your children op?

Yes we’ve been to the coast with family.

Hallelujah!!

Would you go abroad with family and your kids then?

Yes but that’s not an option as they aren’t able to come.

do they go abroad with kids? Or same fear as you?

The people I know either have partners or only one kid so yes they do go abroad but it’s usually places I could not afford so that’s not an option anyway like Mexico, Thailand, Dubai, Caribbean they wouldn’t be interested in an all inclusive in Spain which would be my budget!

Well even if they were interested…. Would you go abroad with them and your kids?

You don’t have to make a decision about the future now. You never know how they’ll be when they’re older. Just decide year after year.

Yeah of course? This thread is about holidaying alone though not just no holidays at all.

so really your thread is…

anyone else never want to travel abroad alone with children, either ND OR NT because of all the “dangers”?

what dangers are abroad that aren’t here?

and when you say you holiday in Uk… what kind of holidays?