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Going on an Overseas Vacation with a 1 Year Old

My husband and I are going on a 1-week Caribbean vacation over the summer with other family members and we are wondering if we should take our 1 year old son on the trip. I don't want to leave him behind for that length of time but my husband is leaning toward us having that time for ourselves. I suggested perhaps my husband and I can do a 3-day weekend trip away intead. All I am thinking about is that I will be on this beach resort seeing other moms playing with their toddlers in the sand and my son will be in another country. Is it wise...

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Going on an Overseas Vacation with a 1 Year Old

My husband and I are going on a 1-week Caribbean vacation over the summer with other family members and we are wondering if we should take our 1 year old son on the trip. I don't want to leave him behind for that length of time but my husband is leaning toward us having that time for ourselves. I suggested perhaps my husband and I can do a 3-day weekend trip away intead. All I am thinking about is that I will be on this beach resort seeing other moms playing with their toddlers in the sand and my son will be in another country. Is it wise...

Traveling & Kids

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Worried - Should I Leave Kids for 2 Weeks?

I have been invited to do something I have always wanted to do....it is a 16 day rafting trip down the Grand Canyon. My first response was to jump up and down saying yes! yes! yes! People put in for a permit to do this and then wait years. They may or may not get one. It would be with a group of 16 people....some are good friends...some have done this before and have experience. My husband's parents can watch our kids for the 2nd half, so his plan is to drive to the Grand Canyon, hike to the bottom, and we pick him up there. The first 8...