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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm kind of shocked by all of the negativity in these responses... My ex and I had this exact schedule after we divorced (1 child who was 7 when we split up) and it worked well for all three of us. Mom was always with the kid for the M/Tu stuff and dad was always with the kid for the W/Th stuff, which gave us nice consistency. We lived 7 minutes apart and both of our houses were a 15 minute drive from kid's school, so if an item was left behind or needed to be dropped off it was not a problem.

Once kid reached 8th grade, they asked to not do the mid week switch so we changed the schedule to alternating weeks with each parent. At that point, ex and I were on good terms and had no problem with having the other parent take the kid out to dinner or do other stuff with them during the other parent's week.[/quote]

Actually maybe we did not have the exact same schedule: ours was 
Mom M/Tu
Dad W/Th
alternating F/S/Sun

The "handing off" would happen at school- so Mom would always drop off kid at school on Wednesday morning and Dad would pick up on that day; whoever had the kid for the weekend would pick up from school on Friday afternoon and drop off at school on Monday morning, and mom would always pick up from school on Monday.

Kid didn't need to tote much stuff between houses when they were young so it was easy for them to take what they needed with them to school. As they got older, there was more and more stuff. Once we switched to the week on/week off schedule, we would do the handoff on Sunday afternoon so that all the stuff could be dropped off along with the kid.[/quote]

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