DarrenM

Ah your a Balcony type. Nice one.

Dont have one so its the basement for mine.

A huge cooked breakfast for me, and nearly always skip lunch as lunch time is beer time on holiday. By 6pm starving again and straight to MDR. Sorted.

you want to borrow my basement?

totally agree Clo

yes but it always seemd a bit too inclusive and forced fun. My two kids are 4 years apart and wouldnt have been put together, but when they were little my 4 year old would rip ino my 8 year old lke they were the same size. And wouldnt have been separated.

Of course some parents have a different view of how much fun their kids were having when it was the parents decision to out them in a kids club, than maybe their kids really thought.

Just saying.

Seriously though my kids were very active sports types, from a very early age, and kids clubs didnt look much fun to them the few times we asked they were interested.

If there were enough like mindd kids equally into very competitve physical sports then maybe they might have been interested. But they never were.

We looked in on one and saw lots of kids sitting round painting and drawing, and palying in a sand pit, or dancing to a cd player.

Would have been my kids idea of hell.

Hence it was better to lock them in the basement.

1 hour ago, mjkacmom said:

I feel sorry for your kids, my kids love cruising and meeting other kids from all over and having fun with them, and then keeping in touch for years. They have breakfast and dinner with us, shows and excursions with us, and the rest of the times are with others. I’ve been a SAHM of 5 kids for 23 years, I spend A LOT of time with my kids, and they are all best friends. Did you work outside of the home?

Yes I work outside of home, but its OK the kids get locked in the basement.

Sadly one of my biggest faults is my modesty.

And my lying.😁

I mean what is better?

Standing next to Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square, or sitting in the nearest pub viewing it from the window?

Thing is, if you are in London, or any major city in the UK, if it rains you are never more than a few feet from the nearest Pub.

And British Pubs are our greatest invention.

as long as you bring your own needles.

no need for them. I am european.

It never rains in the UK in summer.

just kidding.🙄

I draw the line at herioin injecting at dinner. Unless they share.

Just T Shirts and shorts. And a couple of pairs of jeans for Dress up night.

We like to live dangerously.

Its not allowed to rain on holiday.

I just need my ironic and sarcastic sense of humour. Us Brits travel light.

the moring after eating at the captains table wearing shorts and flip flops.

338. Cant wait to be on the top deck throwing unsupervised children overboard back to their uncaring parents, whilst wearing budgie smugglars after eating all of the buffet.

Who is in a constant state of anxiety?

My kids are 25 and 21 now, and we had fantastic holidays with them when they were young.

We did everything with them.

Because they were our responsibilty, and we never forgot it.

5 hours ago, brillohead said:

People have been leaving their children to be cared for by non-parents for millennia.  This is hardly anything new -- why does the fact that it's happening on a cruise make it so much different?

Yes they have, and for me they were all wrong to do so.

There again, I have very little time for folk that force their kids into boarding school a ta very young age.

Nobody is forced to have childeren, but if you do, its not unreasonable to susggest yu do because you love them and you want to bring them up and have fun with them, and hoprefully help them become very nice and rounded individuals.

If we go on holiday as a family, every pan we made was as a family.

It would have made me ill with worry if I thought I ahd left them somewhere and couldnt get to them, or something bad happened.

My brain cant compute folk that can dumpt their kids in that way.

5 hours ago, brillohead said:

Not at all.  

How is it any different than leaving him at a friend's house or with a sitter while we went out for "date night"?

 

If you really see that as an equal comparison there is little point in arguiung with you.

Wherever I have ever been on holiday my wife and I never put our kids into any kids club. I find the concept of them bizarre. Forced fun for kids, whose parents want free time.

We went on holiday together, and we played together.

To leave them in a kids club on a cruise ship whilst the parents bog off to Barcelona, I find Horrific.

Dover and Southampton are many many miles apart. 151 miles to be exact.

Therefore you cant be at both.

My downloaded music. Cant go anywhere without it.