https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:32:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1029233 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:17:05 +0000 cheesetomywhine 1029233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. My mum wishes she had though at least once (my daddy is deceased now). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1029231 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:16:21 +0000 GrapeCrush 1029231@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom took a cruise to Mexico when I was 10 with her then boyfriend and his parents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1029170 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:01:50 +0000 artsyfartsy 1029170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not until I got older. My parents went to Vegas and to races often over the weekends without me when I was a teenager. </p> <p>But by then I wasn't interested in going anyway. Lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1029099 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:41:08 +0000 Bookish 1029099@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, and I wish they had. They could have benefited greatly from some non-kid time. It's one thing I will be making a priority in my family, and I'm so lucky to have a lot of family nearby to take care of LO! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1029030 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:04:09 +0000 heffalump 1029030@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sometimes just to go to weddings that kids weren't invited to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1029024 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:00:30 +0000 MediaNaranja 1029024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: @MamaMoose: I distinctly remember once my dad went on a several-week river trip and came back with a beard. I burst into tears and was still shy around him the next day when he shaved it off, ha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1029009 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:55:25 +0000 Corduroy 1029009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Once a year. Starting when I was about 7 my brother and I would go to a sleep away summer camp for a few days and my parents would take a vacation. I don't think we even knew they used that time to take vacations until high school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028989 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:49:31 +0000 Sunshine1810 1028989@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No, not until I was in college. I have a younger sister with Down Syndrome and some health complications on top of it, so they never wanted to leave her with anyone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028985 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:48:06 +0000 Littlebit 1028985@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All the time! Each year they would take a vacation just the two of them, and then a family vacation with all the kids. I hope to be able to do the same! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028973 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:42:15 +0000 looch 1028973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028969 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:40:20 +0000 Pepper 1028969@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Never! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028950 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:30:57 +0000 mrsjyw 1028950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! They barely had time for family vacas (small business owners). Any time they had off, they spent with us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028944 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:29:58 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 1028944@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, but only two that I remenber. Jamaica and Hawaii. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028943 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:29:51 +0000 yoursilverlining 1028943@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, but we also had zero family nearby so that might have been a factor.</p> <p>We definitely plan on taking trips sans baby in the future! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028939 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:28:08 +0000 DigAPony 1028939@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not until I was in high school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028937 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:25:27 +0000 mrs. bird 1028937@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup. Usually we'd stay with my grandparents. Once we were 15&amp; 16 we'd stay by ourselves. But family &amp; neighbors would check in on us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028921 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:16:40 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 1028921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes - they did it a few times when we were younger, and more as we were older. They were typically week-long trips to nice places like Hawaii or the Cayman Islands. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028918 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:14:46 +0000 sunny 1028918@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can only remember 2 trips without us. Both times, we were all visiting my Aunt in California and my parents took an overnight road trip to Reno for a night or two. We didn't mind since we loved hanging out with my cousin! </p> <p>I'm not sure why they didn't go on more trips because we lived with my Grandma. It would have been so easy for them to go out after our bedtimes too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028901 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:09:52 +0000 HellOnHeels 1028901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup, left with grandparents when they were away. First time was their honeymoon and they came home early because they missed me so much. That didn't happen when my brother was born and we were older... they probably wanted to extend it. :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028900 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:09:32 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1028900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, at least once a year they took a week-long trip and lots of weekend trips</p> <p>Now they only have one kid at home and they are constantly vacationing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028897 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:08:18 +0000 LuLu Mom 1028897@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, they would go on weekend trips and they took a cruise when I was in HS. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028884 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:04:08 +0000 anonysquire 1028884@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Probably once a year. They'd hire babysitters for the week and it was a madhouse! Now they go on one family trip a year and an alone trip almost every month. I'm so jealous! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028858 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:52:55 +0000 mlm2934 1028858@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@char54: haha too funny!!!</p> <p>My parents never left me behind, granted we didnt go on too many family vacations either. I definitely plan to take a few adults vacations along the way when I have kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028848 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:49:22 +0000 LaineysMom 1028848@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. We went on every single vacation with them.. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028806 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:36:43 +0000 prettylizy 1028806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, Cuba, rented a houseboat in Tennessee, Mexico a few times, golf trips etc. We usually went and stayed with our grandparents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028802 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:35:12 +0000 MapleMoose 1028802@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, we stayed with my grandparents. We had so much fun. :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028797 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:32:28 +0000 Adira 1028797@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really, though my brother and I used to spend a week in the summer with our grandparents, so maybe they did vacationy stuff without us! I always thought WE were on vacation without THEM, but maybe it was really the other way around! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028792 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:31:17 +0000 Charm54 1028792@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad gave my mom a Disney cruise trip for Christmas one year. When she opened it we ALL started freaking out (we are huge Disney fanatics in our family). He then had to explain that it was just them going, hahaha. Who goes on a Disney cruise without their 4 kids?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028786 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:29:40 +0000 MamaMoose 1028786@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not too often. But every now and then.</p> <p>@.twist.: This makes me laugh. I apparently freaked out and cried when my dad shaved off his mustache. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-your-parents-ever-take-vacations-without-you#post-1028785 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:29:35 +0000 teamjse 1028785@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes but we were old enough to be without them. </p>