My 2 step-daughters (2 and half and 9) are expected by their gran to go and stay 2-6 weeks in school summer hols. Their gran lives in highlands of Scotland and we live in Yorks so not exactly down road !! She smokes, fills them with choc, sweets and e numbers, doesn't think its her place to dicipline if they are naughty, and only livs in a 1 bed flat. We still have to pay childcare if they are away. I don't want them to go as they are settled and in a routine. When they went last summer they both piled weight on (the eldest over 1 stone) had no dicipline and it took us 2 weeks to get the youngest to sleep on her own again. I don't want to seem to their gran that I am being unreasonable but I really don't want them to go. She will smoke around them (even if we tell her not to) and she feels it is not her place to say no to them and that wont change. I am scared they will come back overweight, spoilt brats.
Am I just being unreasonable as she is ther gran and its not for too long?
2007-03-27
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cavviecath
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