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When I went to Vegas (maybe 5-6 years ago?) you couldn't walk down the main strip without seeing a million baseball-card type ads for prostitutes on the sidewalk and all over public areas. How do you deal with this if you have children with you? I guess you don't walk anywhere?
I have a 25 year old son with a 2year old. he decides to plan a trip to las vegas with his baby's mother and ask me to pick up my grandchild from daycare while he is gone. In your opinion do you think he should be asking me to this or should he be planning a vacation including is child? i have mixed feelings and don't want to come across as mean but I am a working mother with a child myself and a teenager.
You're saying baby's mother and not daughter-in-law. That tells me how much you like her
When I went to Vegas (maybe 5-6 years ago?) you couldn't walk down the main strip without seeing a million baseball-card type ads for prostitutes on the sidewalk and all over public areas. How do you deal with this if you have children with you? I guess you don't walk anywhere?
I have taken my kids there and we stayed at Mandalay Bay. If we went somewhere, we would take a cab or go from one casino to another via the skywalks. We never walked on the sidewalks for the reason you mentioned.
There is a lot to do there for kids. We took them to see Phantom at the Venetian, spent a day at the pool complex at Mandalay, did the Star Trek ride at the Hilton (is it still there?) and saw the show at the Excalibur with all the jousting. Although I don't recommend Phantom for kids that you wouldn't normally take to a theater show.
We also took our (at the time) 3 year old to Vegas and stayed at the Mandalay Bay, we were there for a concert rather than for the drinking and gambling. We had a rental car but walking up and down the strip wasn't really a problem, there were some people handing out cards but the sidewalk was pretty wide, we just kept our distance.
OP if you don't feel like you can manage what they have asked of you then tell them. You have every right to say no. Where they are going isn't really material, it's that they have assumed they could take off and have you step in without asking.
OP if you don't feel like you can manage what they have asked of you then tell them. You have every right to say no. Where they are going isn't really material, it's that they have assumed they could take off and have you step in without asking.
I didn't see the OP say that the trip was booked already, could be he is waiting on his mother to say yay or nay.
Either way, it is obvious that the OP won't do it, simply because of the way she refers to her grandchild's mother. Bit spiteful, there.
Edit to directly answer the OP - yes, if he is planning an overnight, adult only trip, he should ask the child's grandparent if they can help watch the baby, before asking a friend or other family member. The rest of the trip details shouldn't concern you, unless he was going to, say, Egypt.
When I went to Vegas (maybe 5-6 years ago?) you couldn't walk down the main strip without seeing a million baseball-card type ads for prostitutes on the sidewalk and all over public areas. How do you deal with this if you have children with you? I guess you don't walk anywhere?
I was thinking the same exact thing! I would never take my kid there. It's called Sin City for a reason. But my sister takes her kids there every year...so to each there own I guess.
But anyway, back on topic....it sounds like to me that you really don't want the extra work when you already have a couple of your own kids still at home to take care of and that's very understandable. If he does this type of thing all the time, I'd have a big problem with it too.
We take our kids to Vegas. We always have a fun time. The pools are great and there are lots of things for families to do. If you're going to drink and gamble your money away, then that probably wouldn't be very fun for the kids. But if you're just going to have fun in a healthy way, Vegas is really fun with the kids. Our kids love Vegas. Even the simple things they talk about again and again... like having gelatto in the Venetian or sitting and watching the storms pass over the "sky" (ceiling) in the Desert Passage (Aladdin)... The Bellagio fountains and the volcano's at the Mirage... even the botanical gardens at the Bellagio impressed them. And lots of that stuff is free, too, which can make it a very affordable vacation for families, too.
Anyway - sorry to go off-topic... but just wanted to respond to that. Vegas isn't all trash and smut. It just depends on what you seek out while you're there.
Yeah, we used to go to Vegas once a year. We all had fun as kids.
When I went to Vegas (maybe 5-6 years ago?) you couldn't walk down the main strip without seeing a million baseball-card type ads for prostitutes on the sidewalk and all over public areas. How do you deal with this if you have children with you? I guess you don't walk anywhere?
We simply walked right past the guys and didn't take anything they were handing out.
You're saying baby's mother and not daughter-in-law. That tells me how much you like her
I took it that the son and baby's mother were not married...so she wouldn't be her DIL.
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