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[quote=Anonymous]Start smaller, like one day, have something scheduled where you have to leave the house before the kids do.  Then he has to get the kids up and run through morning routine.  Give it a break and later schedule something in the evenings when he has to handle dinner and bedtime for him and the kids.  Besides, it's easier for him to learn in smaller chunks rather than trying to handle a whole weekend or a 3 day trip.

Not only are you less likely to have disaster days where a lot is missed or wrong, but it's a better learning experience.  If he just handles the morning routine and gets the kids to school, he's more likely to remember A, B and C that went wrong and be able to talk to you about it at dinner that night.  If you leave for a 3 day business trip, but the time you get back, so many things have happened and it's been so long that he might not remember the things he needs to talk to you about.

If you do it on a smaller scale one day here, one day there, it is harder for his parents to schedule a swoop-in visit when it's just for a Tuesday morning or a Thursday evening.  [/quote]

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