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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the harsh response of many posters. I lost both of my parents when my kids were small. First my dad when DC1 was a few months old, and then my mom when DC2 was just 1 and DC1 still a toddler. Even in my deepest grief I recognized that my kids' needs come first, and that we needed to plan around things with their best interest in mind. So if that means that my spouse would stay behind with them while I had to fly solo to my parent's funeral, so be it. It's not personal; it just comes with the territory when you have small kids. [/quote]

But we are not talking about a child needing chemo or something.  We are talking about toddlers and their “routine”.  Who cares if a “routine” is slightly disrupted for a few days.  In this case, the short term toddler being fed and napped at an adjusted time is NoT even remotely as important as a grieving person whose parent just died.  Kids adjust.  It’s the parent here who is being inflexible.  (And I don’t buy that it’s the kids who are tired a week later.)[/quote]

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