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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, she cannot keep her children away from their father. They are his children too and he has as much right as she does to them. Cheating does not sever parental rights. The OP _cannot_ keep the kids away from him, if he cheated with and married a hundred women.

OP, it sounds to me like your kids are telling you that they'd like more active, larger holiday gatherings. I think you can figure out ways to be responsive to this without making it a competition between you and your ex's wife about who's awesomest. Do you have family with kids their age? What about close local friends? Maybe you could have a holiday party. A friend of mine has a 12th Night party every year - it's outside the big holiday party circuit but still in the season of. Maybe you could do something like that.

You need to create traditions too. Thanksgiving at home with just you and them may sound great to you, but it's not really much of a "holiday tradition" and it sounds like your daughters realize that. [/quote]

Most of my relatives that I'm close to are, like my first cousins, are much older with kids around my age, but they don't have kids and I'm an only child, so my kids don't have any first cousins on my side. I have a few close friends, but they don't have kids that are around my kid's age. A 12th night party sounds interesting, can you tell me more about it?

I try to create traditions. We decorate for Thanksgiving and I usually make a big Thanksgiving meal for all of us and then we'll watch classics like Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and The Wizard of Oz. Maybe I need to find other things to keep their interest.[/quote]

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