Holiday musts

Hi 👋🏼
We’re going on our first family holiday to a caravan in the UK in a couple of weeks. Please can anyone give us tips of what to take and what not to take. My brain fills very overwhelmed right now ahah

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Nanny question

I need someone to talk me down. I found out my nanny wore my hat on a walk. I don’t like sharing hats because the idea of forehead oil glands and sweat glands gross me out. Am i wrong to feel negative things about my nanny using my hat?

My daughter is petrified of things that have been there since day one

My daughter (2) is petrified of items in our house and parents house that has been there from before she was born.

She has played with alot of this things she will scream and run away from now in pure terror.

I don't understand what is happening today my sister brought her a fluffy stitch bag as her favorite plate is stitch and one of her toys she plays with is stitch.
But when my sister showed her she was petrified of it ran off screaming, crying and shaking she was hiding in the corner. I'm concerned as I don't know why this happened

She also done this same reaction to an iron man mask my mom has on the top of the kitchen unit been there for years before. She used to ask for it all the time but never was given it due to the value then all of a sudden she was freaked out by it and ran off again screaming, crying hiding away.

Has anyone else experienced this with there child or anyone

I'm worried she is going to get worse over time with everything as its becoming a patten over the last could of weeks. Just want to help her.

Is this fair?

Back story I booked a holiday last year with my mum&her sister for this month.
With everything going on in my life (chronic health, war & possibly about to lose my job in May (redundancies in company) so bill/housing stresses which she knows all this) I’m not in a good frame of mind, my stress is through the roof & this massively affects my health as I’m having more joint flare ups & have been pretty much house bound in recent weeks,
I asked last month to cancel the holiday or reschedule it to a later date, at the time they changed the holiday but only by six weeks to end of May and I still don’t feel up to going next month, I’ve put my foot down for once and said tonight I would not like to go & asked would they still go together (cause there both in there 50s flown for over 30years they don’t need me to go, everything is booked/sorted it’s all inclusive etc)
I’m now currently being guilt tripped by my mum (my aunty hasn’t said anything yet)saying they can’t do boarding passes without me, they don’t do technology, they wouldn’t be able to navigate finding the hotel(coach would drop them off), how unfair I’m being to my son (he’s 3 has no clue about the holiday), how different I’m acting and implying they would have to cancel indefinitely and also lose 50% of payment cause it’s a late cancellation…

They 100% could still go, my mum even moved abroad when she was in her late 20s she has flown a lot more then me and she’s making me feel bad for respectfully not wanting to go and put my health first and she’s saying it’s just not like me…,like I want to be in pain & cancelling a nice holiday, my partner thinks I should just remove my seat now cause he thinks my mum is very entitled & only thinks about her own wants, I’d understand if I cancelled leaving my mum alone but she would have her sister with her, is this fair?

Should I let my soon to be 7 year old (in 3 weeks) read the Harry Potter series?

Picked up my son from school and he asked to go to the library to check out the first book of the series.

Living with parents help

I live with my parents and my 3 kids and I’m dying. I’m constantly criticized on my parenting and how I handle situations. I’m in school as well and starting to work part time. I don’t have a car and my boys are little, 6-1 year olds.

I can’t stand being here much longer. It’s almost been a year and I’m over it. I want to save up and get my own car and get my own place but I can’t work much due to my kids ages and my oldest is autistic.

Any advice or suggestions for how to make this situation bearable. We don’t have our own room we sleep in the family room downstairs so our stuff is constantly all over the place. On top of that my parents home had a lien put on it due to my attorney fees for my divorce. I try to contribute as much as I can. My parents were almost empty nesters and haven’t had littles in their home for 12+ years.

We also have very different standards on cleanliness. I admit my standards are much lower due to my adhd, my autistic son and my kids ages.

I just want to figure something out other than either being who they want me to be or continuously going against them and feeling like I’m the hated child.

Have you ever had someone threaten/report you to CPS?

This one is triggering and embarassing which is why I made it anonymous. I have had multiple people threaten to call CPS on me because of my childs volume. (He is a toddler.) One of them was someone who was exremely hypocritical assumed the worst and tried to accuse me of "medical neglect". There was none. The others were people claiming that "I have no control over my child" because he was too loud. One of them even tried to accuse me of beating my child when I dont. I do not beat, spank or hit my child in any way. They were roommates who were just trying to get me kicked out because they thought my child was loud all the time. I have even caught them video taping me and my child whenever he got loud or whenever he had tantrums. I was not paranoid. The person who I paid rent to even admitted to me that the other roommates were recording us. She admitted it in text. I also caught her lying about it because a few months before that she lied saying "Nobody is recording you or taking pictures of you. They even showed me their camera roll." (They probably deleted the pics/videos before they showed her) but then a few months later she said "They have plenty of pictures of you and your child. You can't control your child!" Ironically, those same people who reported me or threatened to report me were people who were hypocrites and who did not have custody of their own kids or they beat their own kids (i heard it) or both. One of them even told me they think I should spank my child. (I don't) its almost as if that person was trying to set me up.

Btw: CPS never took my child. I have full custody of my son and I always have. When CPS spoke to me they took my side with each call. I knew I was innocent. They even agreed with me that a lot of his behaviours were common for his age. One of them even said "He looks fine" when she looked at him. It is scary that some people would threaten CPS to people just to intimidate them. Also, i moved. I don't live with those roommates anymore.