Wednesday 11 May 2022

Visiting places without kids.

When our kids were little and we used to visit kid friendly places, we noticed lots of adults visiting without kids. From castles, to theme parks to Disney. Not just the younger generation (pre kids) but middle aged people like we are now.

We would question why on earth someone who is child free would choose to go somewhere full of kids when they don't have kids with them. When we were child free, after household chores, we chose the pub, visited friends and did the grown up shopping ie B&Q, Ikea etc.

We've always avoided doing things on bank holiday weekends and avoided the UK during the summer holidays when the kids were still at home and since they've left home we've gone places on week days and travelled outside of the school holidays.

However I'm now working in a school so now we're limited to weekends, evenings and holidays to go places. We visited West Wales over the Easter Weekend, went to a family fun day in the park over May Day and visited the RHS Spring Festival. We're going camping the week of the Jubilee, but will hopefully be in Australia for the main summer holidays.

Since the kids have left home, we've had spa days, private beach days, been out for brunch, had a game of crazy golf, been to tourist attractions, been to firework display's and seen laser shows and more recently joined our neighbours and friends with their children for Christmas light and garden shows as well as visiting indoor and outdoor play centres as well as soft play for dogs. I've taken Bob to the Lavender fields and Pumpkin Patch, been on doggy play dates and even attended Valentines events and taken Bob to see Santa more than once as well as hold birthday parties for the cat and the dog.

Beach days

Easter egg hunt

Pumpkin Patch

Light shows

So that's why adults go to kid friendly places, it's a lot of fun. It's a chance to explore places properly, to relax and not be running after kids, breaking up fights, amusing and entertaining kids of different ages and interests.

We do however, do things with our kids still, road trips, parties, shopping and meals, but these days they have their children with them and we can sit back, relax and just enjoy being out with them now and not having to take charge.


10 comments:

  1. We are at that inbetween stage. The kids are at an age where they don't want to have days out with my fella and I but I don't feel comfortable leaving my youngest home alone if her sister is out or at work. I say in a couple of years my fella and I will get days out but I am betting by then the kids will have changed their minds and want to come with us. lol

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    1. there's always a risk they'll still want to come out with you

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  2. We are learning the ins and outs of leisure time without kids. It definitely has its benefits. And we also enjoy doing things with the whole crew!

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    1. it's nice now to have a balance between time alone and doing things with the family

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  3. I think we sometimes forget that we have a child seeing as the others are adults and teens. We still try to do fun things with him but the others aren't interested.

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    1. There's always a problem with kids finding family things to do that are of interest to them all

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  4. Thisiswhereitisat15 May 2022 at 19:32

    Ooo I would love to go to a light show looks so much fun x #pocolo

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  5. I draw the line at going to kids films and theatre shows on my own, but I can see me still going out to all the types of places I take N now once he's grown up and working. Maybe with friends instead. But maybe there's a break needed inbetween going - to give the breather from kids before he potentially has his own and I can go as a grandparent.

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    1. it's a lot of fun having grandchildren and reentering the world of soft play without the dramas

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