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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t see myself doing this, but it probably won’t scar the two year old. They don’t know what Christmas is. My mom left me for two weeks at that age so she could go defend her thesis. I don’t remember the separation at all. A friend was left with her nanny in a village for two months while her parents took exams. She doesn’t recall it at all.[/quote]

They may not rember the events, but it leaves an imprint on their emotional recollection.[/quote]

My parents left me with extended family for my second Thanksgiving so they could take my older siblings to Disney. As a result, I"ve had a lifelong struggle with drugs/alcohol and have trouble forming emotional attachments.

Kidding!  FFS, the kid will have zero memories of this. In our household my aunt likes to talk about how I sat there happily with some turkey, and I joke about my abandonment and how my parents have clearly always loved my siblings the most (not, I am the spoiled youngest).

Y'all are nuts.[/quote]

I didn't claim the kids will remember the events, but that it will emotionally impact him.  And tbh, even though you like to joke about being abandoned, and belittling people who are concerned for OP's child, it looks like you were emotionally impacted as well and you play it off as a joke.  But it's really not funny to someone who has developed a legit drug/alcohol dependence.[/quote]

I was definitely emotionally impacted. As an adult I can look back and recognize that even though my family is close, I am not the center of the universe, and other people have needs, too![/quote]

Right, like a 2 year old needs his parents.[/quote]

Indeed, only a 2 year old's parents can care for him, leaving him in the care of anyone else for a week constitutes child abandonment. Call CPS![/quote]

You're a sarcastic jerk who enjoys making light of child abandonment and belittling people who are concerned for a 2 year old's well being.  You're not really worth responding to.[/quote]

DP, and I agree, but only if sarcastic jerk = rational.[/quote]

Not PP but the fact you think you're rational says it all. You just don't get it.[/quote]

I don't get it. Because going on a vacation while leaving a child with a trusted caregiver is not child abandonment. By any stretch of the imagination.[/quote]

Like hell it isn't.[/quote]

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