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Originally Posted by DoubleF
Rightfully or wrongfully... I have known friends who either bought a wireless webcam or a phone stand to do a video call of where the kids are sleeping. They then go down to the hotel restaurant/pool and enjoy themselves for an hour or two while using the phone to regularly monitor the kids. They claim they don't leave for a solid hour or two though. Every 20-30 minutes, one of them goes up to the room to physically check on the kids and then goes back down.
They comment they're never more than a few floors or few minutes away and the kids sleep through the night. They kids were also taught to never leave the room (bed room, not even hotel room) and to talk to the phone or camera if they needed something when on vacations. Kids must have been like 1, 3 and 5 at those times when they started doing this?
They have no family/help in Canada, so I guess they gotta do what they gotta do for some time alone. My wife and I get occasional help/sleep over help for the kids from the grandparents, so we don't feel as comfortable starting the latch key kid concept so early.
A few years ago, we also started experimented with traveling with certain families. We'd do our own thing, and meet up for things whenever we felt like it, so weren't obligated to get dragged around for a schedule we didn't like. It seemed to work well to the point we rented an air bnb together in Phoenix which gave us the opportunity to take turns having one couple go out on a date night while the other couple stayed behind enjoying the hot tub/pool, cleaning, planning etc. That was a great trip with the included bonus bizarre story of finding fire arms in the rental car.
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No judgement from me! I've done that with my kids for sure, just very situation dependent - my 9 & 2 year old no problems being a couple floors away. My 4 year old daughter sleepwalks so as soon as she's there we've gotta be on the same floor because she'll blow out that door and just start wandering the halls lol. Actually at that tournament when it was just me and 9 the fire alarm went off when I was outside the lobby having a few drinks. He was good and called me on his tablet while I was running up 10 flights of stairs to go get him, and my father of the year award haha.
Sidenote: As someone who's never experienced any kind of sleepwalking until my daughter, that #### is crazy.