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[quote=Anonymous]We have no family near by (grandparents are either passed away or my mother, who’s 2 hrs away, always ALWAYS says no; I have asked and asked). We have 2 kids who are now teens, and they fight over the air they breathe (which is its own thread). We have tried everything, including family counseling and parenting classes, to structure and minimize fighting, but it persists in one way or another. I  think this has come into play with others when we have asked for sitters we know to do overnights or if we can have the kids spend the night for us to go somewhere as a couple. A good friend did confide that she didn’t feel equipped to handle their bickering (and I appreciated her honesty), so those were nos.

When they got old enough for overnight camp, we tried doing those. My oldest LOVED overnight camp while my youngest hated it and would beg to come home. So after 2 summers we stopped sending my youngest bc he was so miserable. Now my oldest has aged out unless she became a CIT.

My kids are both high schoolers and I still don’t feel comfortable enough leaving them alone overnight because I am 100% sure my oldest would break the rules and have people over which could suddenly turn into a “party” with drinking. Plus with social media and phones, the info would spread too quickly that the parents are out of town and suddenly all these kids just show up and it spirals out of control (happened to a neighbor’s kid). So I feel like we are still stuck. But this is totally kid dependent. I have friends that went to Mexico for a week and left their high schoolers back in NOVA but they went to school, walked the dog, didn’t have people over, all was well. For us,  It is what it is. [/quote]

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