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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand- the kids are teens. Send them to the pool if they don’t want to nap.

It not at all that are stuck with the kids; the teens want a little rope.

You are mad because you think he gets a break and you don’t. But since the kids aren’t babies, this t even an issue.[/quote]

Only one of them is a teen. See OP's PP about them not being old enough to be at the pool alone.[/quote]

An 11 is old enough to quietly occupy themselves.[/quote]

You keep saying this but still haven’t said what they should actually be doing during that time? when we’re on vacation, we don’t have to fill every minute w activities and we do build in down time/screen or reading or napping time but 2 hrs a day of that is kind of a lot. The vacation is only 1 week. [/quote]
Reading? Watching tv or a movie? Writing in a journal? Napping themselves? Going on a photography hunt? Researching where to go for dinner? Looking up the planned activity for tomorrow? Good lord, if your 11/13 yo can't entertain themselves for a few hours you have failed as a parent. [/quote]

ALl of your suggestions are a perfectly valid response for one day. But this sounds like it's EVERY day, on EVERY vacation. The guy just can't be bothered to give a damn about his kids and what they might want to do. What's even more sad, the kids want to be with him—it's not even like he's being asked to babysit, the kids WANT TO BE WITH HIM. And his response is churlish, hostile and insistent that he better get his nap, OR ELSE.

And I [b]guarantee [/b]you this isn't the only time he treats his family this way...[/quote]
You are making a LOT of assumptions and "guarantees" about a person you dont even know, getting one side of a story on the internet. [/quote]

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