Why would I travel with my parents or in-laws?
Today's grandparents don't live next door like they used to. One of the ways that you get to spend time, and that your child gets to know your parents or your in-laws, is that you go on vacation together. I like it because it takes away a lot of the negatives when you go on vacation. If I took my kids to my mothers house, as wonderful as she was, she would say, Oh, don't touch this. Don't touch that. But when we went to a neutral setting, she didn't care, and it didnt matter as it wasn't her house. I think it is really important, though - one of the things parents do very frequently is that they make their parents the babysitters. As much as they want to babysit for their kids, I think it should come from them, not from you. You shouldn't expect your parents to babysit. You should expect them to have a good time with your kids and you should expect them to have a good time with you. If they want to babysit while you go out, that's great, but there's no reason why they shouldn't enjoy it as well.