What do you think?

I have a child in my class whose parents went out of country to go on vacation. They never take their kids. They go places several times a year. They leave their kids with grandma back at home. By Friday at pickup I could tell grandma was OVER it. The kids were angry and acting out all week long. One student is successfully potty trained. But by the end of week had regressed quite a bit and was having multiple accidents a day. I just can’t help but think, why subject your poor grandma and the kids to such a huge change in routine just for the sake of getting alone time? (Two weeks!) and part of me is like yeah get any alone time you can get but I could tell it was seriously messing with the kids. One of my good students suddenly became the problem child. Hitting everyone that came within reach, no reasons needed. Like why create so many problems for yourself to have to come home to? Was the two weeks without kids that necessary? The kids are 2 and 7. And poor grandma. Dang she looked like she was going to cry. She didn’t sign up for that.