Mike Bartenhagen
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jun 2, 2000
I know this forum usually has discusions about taking your child to WDW but I am wondering how others feel about not taking you child on a trip. I am especially interested in responses from parents with older SN children. We have three kids. Two typical girls that are 6 and 8 and our SN son Broc who is 3 and has Infantile Spasms which cause him to have about 100 seizures per day. His cognative level is about that of a 12 month old but he does walk and is generally healthy other than the seizures.
We are fortunate and have the opportunity to travel quite a bit and struggle at times on whether or not to bring Broc with us. Many times he is much happier staying with grandma and grandpa. He does travel with us at times and was at WDW last year and will go again next year with extended family but we also have a few trips planned in between that he probably won't go on. For instance we are thinking about trying to put togeather a Disney Cruise this fall and possibly a trip to Jamaica in the spring.
My wife and I are sometimes torn on weather to bring him with us. While he probably would have fun for a few hours of the day I am very sure he would prefer to be at home. We wonder if we will look back at some of our family vacations and wish we would have had Broc with us.
If we were making a once in a lifetime trip the decision would be easy, he would go, but we know he will go with us often on trips but are hopeful we don't look back and regret not having pictures of him at 3 with Mickey or on the beach in the Carribean but on the other hand we don't want him to have a stressful unpleasent week for the sake of getting a few pictures and saying we are all togeather.
Mike
We are fortunate and have the opportunity to travel quite a bit and struggle at times on whether or not to bring Broc with us. Many times he is much happier staying with grandma and grandpa. He does travel with us at times and was at WDW last year and will go again next year with extended family but we also have a few trips planned in between that he probably won't go on. For instance we are thinking about trying to put togeather a Disney Cruise this fall and possibly a trip to Jamaica in the spring.
My wife and I are sometimes torn on weather to bring him with us. While he probably would have fun for a few hours of the day I am very sure he would prefer to be at home. We wonder if we will look back at some of our family vacations and wish we would have had Broc with us.
If we were making a once in a lifetime trip the decision would be easy, he would go, but we know he will go with us often on trips but are hopeful we don't look back and regret not having pictures of him at 3 with Mickey or on the beach in the Carribean but on the other hand we don't want him to have a stressful unpleasent week for the sake of getting a few pictures and saying we are all togeather.
Mike