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[quote=Anonymous]or it's a meaningful holiday to the rest of your family and it would mean a lot to them to push your daughter to spend 1 weekday night celebrating the holiday with them.  I wouldn't recommend this if it was a regular occurrence but it seems like the issue is the upcoming Jewish holidays.

We are not religious at all (my kids and I aren't even Christian) but my husband's family is very religious and it is very important to my mother-in-law that she has her whole family with her for Christmas as well as a few other family traditions around the holidays.  My kids don't enjoy it and it means that we have never been able to go away for the winter holidays.  However, we do it for her because that's what family does.

As a mother of a junior who is also at a very high pressure school and who also has an extracurricular activity for which he has to travel to multiple times a week, I would push him to spend the time with his grandmother for what is essentially her most important holiday.

If she was pushing for it to be a weekly event then no, of course not.  But for a once a year holiday?  Of course.  So it depends on what the grandmother is really asking for.  [/quote]

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