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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel that the first 2 years ish after high school were exciting to come "home for the holidays" because it still felt like my life at that point. After I was more established at school and with my own community, in a relationship, etc., it didn't feel as much like my life. I spent the holidays with my folks pretty much every other year from 22-32. Now we live in the same town and did not spend TG together - my mom and sister had dinner together, and my husband and kids and I had dinner at home by ourselves. We will get together for Christmas, but no one is making a big production of it at this point. We do collectively have a family rule that kids should wake up in their own beds on Christmas morning to the extent possible (e.g., when we lived across the country, that did not happen).

I think your housekeeper's daughter sounds smart. Consider also that when folks at the start of their career show up to work holidays, more established people can stay home and do holidays with their families, at a time when it maybe is more personally important. [/quote]

Disagree. Consider that more established people are more likely to have local family/friends with whom they can spend the holiday even if they have to work in the surrounding days whereas many new/younger employees may not yet have established roots in their new community and are more likely to be homesick and completely alone over the holidays if denied leave,.[/quote]

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