vacation with kids
Would you continue to take your kids on vacation when all they do is complain?
We don’t take a vacation every year. When we do it’s usually to see friends and family, and then we do the local tourist stuff, water parks, go carts, beach, whatever is available where we go. I am so sick of my kids needing to be entertained 24 hours a day, and then constantly saying they are bored, or they hate it (where ever we are.) I am ready to take vacations with my friends or husband and leave them at home. Now this doesn’t mean we won’t take them to amusement parks, or to the beach for a day trip or something like that. They are ruining my trip, their father’s trip and their own trip by constantly complaining non stop! Would you leave them at home w/ a realive at 11 and 13.5, or continue to take them along?
This is a simple case of spoiled kids. I don’t mean to be harsh, but I hate when I see parents in situations like this. You are the adult and you have to make the decision NOT to put up with this behavior. By all means tell them NO once in awhile, leave them behind on a couple of trips (preferably with a strict babysitter), this may help to them to see how lucky they are that their parents do these things for them.
Every summer I take my son to a homeless shelter and we bring donations given to us by friends and family. We also stay and feed the homeless people in our community because I want him to realize how lucky he is that we do have a nice home, get to go on small vacations, and he has plenty of “stuff”. He rarely complains about things since we’ve done this because even at 8 years of age he “gets it”.
When your kids are so spoiled they act like this (and I am sorry but that is the situation here) they need to be given a reality check! You’re not doing them any favors by giving in to them or letting them whine and ruin your good time. They will not be able to act like this as adult or they will never succeed in life. Children need to learn respect, compassion, and caring about things other than themselves. Stop listening to it … put your foot down and save you sanity while making them better human beings in the process!
COLD WAR KIDS – WE USED TO VACATION
