How do we ask Grandma to carry child-travel documents without making her feel distrusted?
Travel“You don't need to give me instructions for looking after my own grandson,” Maureen says when her daughter mentions a travel-permission letter.
She is planning to take nine-year-old Felix from London to Lisbon for five days. Both parents have parental responsibility and support the trip. Their surnames differ from Maureen's. His mother, Becca, wants to check the paperwork before buying the flights; Maureen hears a suggestion that she is not competent to travel with him.
[UK government guidance](https://www.gov.uk/permission-take-child-abroad) says permission from everyone with parental responsibility, or a court, is needed to take a child abroad, subject to the exceptions it describes. It says a permission letter is usually enough to show consent, but that does not settle every destination or carrier requirement for this journey.
Becca is willing to prepare the documents and check the relevant official requirements. She wants Maureen to carry and understand them, not simply put an unopened envelope in her bag. How can she make that request while preserving the excitement of the first grandparents-only holiday?
