Jackie

If it’s in budget, I’d consider vacationing somewhere with a kids club. It’s basically full day camp with counselors, activities and other kids to play with, then parents handle dinner and bed. We can’t do this due to kid medical issues, but friends do and it sounds amazing! Good luck.

I was really surprised by this question. Toddlers developmentally don’t have a ton of judgement or impulse control. We’re liberal in removing things that we don’t to risk, but our general assumption has been that anything out is fair game for the kids, and it may get mangled/broken/colored on in the process. I would really never expect the parents to offer to pay for or otherwise replace a kid toy. If they climbed our counters and broke nice stemware that was intentionally out of kid reach, that might be a different situation, but I’d still chalk it up to something that just happens sometimes when you host.