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[quote=Anonymous]My parents are young-ish and healthy (mid 60s mom and early 70s dad) and they were excellent when DC was a baby. Now that DC is school-aged and very high-energy, we can tell they get tired and we worry about their patience running out. We also worry about his safety a little bit because they seem unable to ramp up their vigilance (due to their being really permissive and eventually, tired). It's also really hard because when DC returns there are some bad after-effects of too much indulgence.

This means we can easily get a single night away (almost always in town) or sometimes two nights. And we appreciate that a lot, even though we have to help DC re-adjust to home rules upon return (and that is hard). We would not take more than that because it just doesn't seem like their thing.

We don't have other family who are nearby or retired, and we don't have friends with whom we have this relationship.

So we bring the kid along when we go places now. But the kid is 6, so we usually just get a small suite so that after 8pm, our time is still our time and that feels nice. It works fine for us. [/quote]

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