The mother of a woman who cancelled her family holiday less than 24 hours after arriving says she ‘ruined it for everybody’.
The grandma couldn’t believe her daughter was serious when she took the kids home because of their behaviour.
The mum and her husband share three children together: two sons, aged nine and eight, and one three-year-old daughter. She blames her swift holiday ending on the boys acting ‘like brats’.
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Ranting to the 'Am I the A**hole' thread on Reddit, she began by saying that her boys were driving her 'crazy'.
"They fight like cats and dogs," she explained. "We’ve had countless talks with them about respecting each other, to no avail.
"I understand sibling rivalry but it’s gotten to the point it’s disruptive to us all, every day."
The mum had already been worried about the trip but was 'shut down pretty much immediately' by her husband.
And the trip started to go wrong quickly, when the three-and-a-half-hour car ride was 'predictably hell'.
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The boys were 'fighting and riling each other up the whole time' and things didn’t get any better when they finally arrived.
Once at the rental house, the boys did 'everything wrong from the get go' despite being given 'many reminders of what not to do'.
"Shoes on the white furniture? Check. Running in the house? Check. I turned my back for 2 seconds and the 8 y/o threw a box of chalk in the pool to keep his brother from getting it," she said.
After finally getting to the beach, the boys were still 'frankly being brats'.
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They refused to wear sun cream, bickered over toys and swore. They also disobeyed safety instructions.
"[They were] pushing their luck repeatedly going farther and farther out in the water than we told them to," she said.
Fed up, she continued: "They were totally ruining it for everybody
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"Nothing had worked and I told my husband we needed to go home, for the reasons mentioned above, mainly that they needed to see a REAL consequence."
So, the mum put her foot down said that either she would leave or they all would as she couldn’t see any other choice.
Less than ’24 hours into a four-day vacation’, the couple and their three kids were on the way home again with the kids ‘bursting into tears’ immediately.
And their grandma was ‘also near tears’ as she stayed behind.
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The mum wrote: “She thinks her precious grandbabies do no wrong. She argued with me too, begging me to 'just let it go' but I refused to budge.”
The woman’s mother couldn’t actually believe her daughter would take such an action to discipline the kids.
“Half the ride home was spent with them sobbing and my husband pretty much gave me the silent treatment the whole way,” the fuming mum writes.
“My mother decided to stay behind a little longer but then started randomly texting me about 30 minutes in, asking if I was serious (she knew I was) and told me the whole reason she came was to spend time with the kids, so I had now ‘ruined it for everybody’ and ‘they’re only little once’.”
Unsurprisingly, even by the next evening neither her husband or two sons were happy with her either. She said: “Pretty much no one likes me right now except my three-year-old.”
However, the reaction is pretty mixed with some saying the a**holes are actually the woman's husband and mother 'who want you to raise future serial killers, apparently'.
And one wrote: "Maybe let dear grandmother take the boys over a weekend (at her house) and the rest of you go on a mini break. And tell the boys: If you can't behave, you don't go."
Jess Battison