A woman was left shocked after her in-laws argued that it was unreasonable to not have her toddler sleep in a separate building while on holiday.
The family has planned to go away together, with everyone staying in a large apartment complex. However, the plan was to put the younger kids, under three years old, to sleep in a separate part of the complex each night so no one is woken up in the middle of the night.
But one mum attempted to change the plan, leading to her in-laws lashing out and calling her unreasonable, the Mirror reports. The frustrated mum, who remained anonymous, posted about her situation on Mumsnet.
"Accommodation is a large villa with additional connected apartments, but with separate entrances", she wrote. "There's also a pool which is unfenced.
"Current proposal is that those with young kids take the apartments, thus ring fencing the kerfuffle at 6:30am when they all wake up, and letting those in the main house get a bit of a holiday lie in."
She added: "I have said, ok, makes sense but obviously either husband or I will effectively go to bed with my daughter each night because I don't want to leave her by herself in a different building (separate entrances) with potential hazards around (unfenced pool, one apartment is up stone steps with a balcony, what if the air con catches fire).
"According to the in-laws, I'm being totally unreasonable. Nothing will happen to her, just lock all of the doors so she can't get out, it's no different to her being asleep upstairs in the house, I'm creating a rod for my own back, just whack on a baby monitor, blah blah blah."
Many supportive mums reached out with messages of support to the frustrated woman. Some even pointed out that she was right to be concerned as there could be potential hazards around the apartment complex.
One person wrote: "You should do what you feel comfortable with, you're the parents." While another stated: "I agree and there's not a hope I'd leave her. "
A third penned: "Agree I wouldn't leave her either."
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