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anyone see the article about holidays with other families?

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hatwoman · 20/07/2008 21:00

also in the Grauniad. It's the second time I;ve read a load of twaddle about how going on holiday with other families is awful. Do journos have really horrible friends or something? Or are they just stupid and go on holiday with people they don;t like?
I totted up today and we've been on holiday with 10 different families - 5 of them twice and all of them we'd repeat it. and that's not counting weekends away which would be several more. I haven't enjoyed every single minute, and, shock horror, there have been times when my friends have annoyed me. I've even been on holiday with the odd spouse of a friend that I don't particularly warm to. but it's a holiday ffs. chill out and enjoy it.

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lilolilmanchester · 20/07/2008 21:59

I read this. Only been on holiday with another family once, and for the most part it was ace. But got to know things about the other woman which have really put me off her - didn't spoil the holiday but did spoil my relationship with her. So have some sympathy with the article TBH.

harpomarx · 20/07/2008 22:02

It became clear to me that it was a different breed of holiday to mine when they started talking about families taking nannies and au-pairs with them...

they did seem to hook up with some random people in that article though - I would only go on holiday with good friends, have done and it was great!

lilolilmanchester · 20/07/2008 22:03

we went on holiday with good friends - less good friends when we came back, with one of them at least.

FAQ · 20/07/2008 22:03
harpomarx · 20/07/2008 22:03

not going to spill, I supppose, lilo?

harpomarx · 20/07/2008 22:04

FAQ - I think you need to cover your eyes, not your ears.

FluffyMummy123 · 20/07/2008 22:04

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FAQ · 20/07/2008 22:05

lol - good point harpo

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hatwoman · 20/07/2008 22:05

yes the nanny thing made dh laugh. more in a "who are these people" type way. he works in the city and doesn;t know a single person who's taken a nanny or au pair on holiday.

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policywonk · 20/07/2008 22:05

Agree hatwoman. We go on holiday with friends regularly and it's always been a good laugh (plus marvellously easy, childcare-wise). I avoided this article because I suspected it would irritate me...

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hatwoman · 20/07/2008 22:06

you're in it? is it you who take the au pair??

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harpomarx · 20/07/2008 22:06

oh, go on policywonk, read it, get irritated!

lilolilmanchester · 20/07/2008 22:07

nothing serious, on the whole we had a great time and the holiday was great. Kids got on better than we'd ever expected. Just realised what a lazy, pampered princess she was that I was too obliging!!

lilolilmanchester · 20/07/2008 22:07

(and just realised I can't do strikeouts!!)

policywonk · 20/07/2008 22:08

harpo

I'll save it for the bath, so that I can savour the irritation.

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hatwoman · 20/07/2008 22:08

it made me think of those competitve mum type articles - articles about an unpleasant type of person that's allegedly part of normal life. I live a sheltered life. most of the people I know (and holiday with) are, you kow, nice.

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harpomarx · 20/07/2008 22:09

yes, and you can dash it in the bath at a particularly annoying moment, pw.

Hulababy · 20/07/2008 22:10

Not seen it but remember a MN thread asking for info.

Have been on holiday with family and with friends and all have gone really well. Going away with friends again this sumemr and really looking forward to it. See the friends a fair bit during rest of year too - at leats once a week, so feel comfortable with them.

Works really well for us especially as DD is an only child - she dores going away with her friends.

harpomarx · 20/07/2008 22:11

aha Hulababy, so you mean the people on this thread are all MNnetters?!

come on, someone out themselves.

Hulababy · 20/07/2008 22:12

Possibly so Was in media requests. My experience (all good) not required for article - said had enough stories.

MrsMopple · 20/07/2008 22:17

We went away with another family last month and it changed the way I feel about them (dh more laid back). What irritated me was the fact that their child constantly mithered mine, at times making him cry, pushing, hitting snatching toys etc and his parents never once intervened. I'm not very confident and didn't feel it was appropriate to reprimand their child, so got into the habit of saying (often) to my ds, 'if you don't like x doing that to you, move away and we'll do something else' Needless to say we spent a lot of time away from the other family!
I think it could work well if you and teh other family have similar views on child rearing - it became obvious that we didn't. ALso bed amd bath times were different which was a bit awkward, as the other dh made it clear that he expected adult time once his ds was in bed, but mine didn;t go to bed til a good hour later and his irritation with that was obvious. Needless to say, I'm in no hurry to repeat the experience!

Turniphead1 · 20/07/2008 22:21

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harpomarx · 20/07/2008 22:26

crap, I meant 'the people in this article are all MNnetters'. Obviously. Everyone on this thread is also a MNnetter.

now I am confusing myself. It has been a long weekend.

harpomarx · 20/07/2008 22:27

seeing as I can't even type in bold any more I may as well go to bed.

lilolilmanchester · 20/07/2008 22:30

I think something's gone wrong with the bold/strikethroughs. I still can't see what I did wrong with my strikethrough earlier, nor what you did wrong with your bold.

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