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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who keeps their 11-year old kids from going out with their friends on Halloween?  Nobody.  Don't make her pay some weird price for her parents' inability to stay married.  [/quote]

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+2. This. Plus as a kid who had divorced parents, there was nothing that sucked more or made me angrier than being told No, because the custody agreement says this is my time. As in-- no you can't attend your best friend's sleepover/ weekend tennis team retreat/ afternoon church activity/ study at a friend's house, because the custody agreement says this is my weekend. Double points if it is "my week" during the summmer, so no swim team, day camps, playing at friend's houses, etc,  jackpot if dad is a surgeon and you go the whole weekend, sitting at his house with stepmom, not spending time with friends and dad isn't even home. But it's his weekend.

Seriously, this is only going to happen more frequently as you hit adolescence. You and her father can either give this child the freedom to be a "normal" tween or teen, despite her parents' divorce. Or you can have a resentful kid who stop visiting as soon as she is legally allowed.  Now,  if that is your goal, you're on the right track. [/quote]

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