Couple trigger TikTok by taking baby - but not toddler - on holiday

“This is exactly why older siblings feel left out.” 

The internet has slammed a couple’s decision to go on holiday with their baby, while leaving their toddler at home.

 

Georgia and Chris Brown, both 30, booked a four-day stay in Morocco for a family getaway.

They brought along their four-month-old son, Harry, but left their two-year-old, George, at home with his grandmother. 

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"I wasn’t sure on the idea of it at first, but I’m so glad we did it" 

Taking to TikTok, the couple shared their experience.

“POV: You leave your first baby at home to take your second baby on their first holiday where it can be all about them and not their big sibling,” she wrote in text on the video. 

In the caption, she admitted she’d been unsure at first. 

“I wasn’t sure on the idea of it at first, but I’m so glad we did it,” she explained. “It was so amazing to make those one-on-one memories with our second.”

But the internet didn’t hold back.

“This is horrible,” wrote one commenter. 

“I fear you did it the wrong way around,” another wrote. 

A third warned: “this is exactly why older siblings feel left out.” 

“This is rotten,” a fourth criticised.  

image: TikTok/gettingreadywithteddy

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"We wanted to give him something that was all about him"

In response, Georgia posted a follow up video after TikTok went “mad about it.” 

“Just to clarify this will only be for his first ever holiday and any other holidays after will be family holidays,” she revealed. 

She also said the trip was about giving their second child the same memories they had created with their first.

“People are saying it’s either favouritism or we don’t have the money and that’s definitely not the case,” she clarified. 

“As a second child his life very much revolves around his brother’s schedule so we wanted to give him something that was all about him.” 

Georgia dismissed concerns that the trip could cause George to develop abandonment issues or long-term resentment as “absolutely crazy.”

She insisted he was happy and well cared for by his grandmother, though admitted there was some guilt that he missed out on the Moroccan fun.

Since then, the couple has taken two more holidays with both children, refuting claims they "weren't able to take two children" away at once. 

Originally published as Couple trigger TikTok by taking baby - but not toddler - on holiday