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[quote=Anonymous]I genuinely don't understand how people are so confounded by this topic. If you are the type of people who would like to leave your kids to go away (I am and have done it) and you don't have family to watch the kids (we don't), your choices are: Hire a sitter. We've done this. Yes, it's expensive. No, you don't find some random and leave them with your kid for a night or two. You build up to it with a trusted sitter. Trade with family friends when they are older. We have done this with friends for 1-2 nights. We keep your kid one weekend, you keep one of ours some other weekend. We do this less often than use sitters. The longest trip we've ever done using a sitter is 4 nights. That was a one time thing for a special occasion. I would say every other year or so, we do a 1-2 night trip. So we're not doing it all the time or going to Asia for 10 days. But it works for us.[/quote]
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