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[quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]My kids don't enjoy it and it means that we have never been able to go away for the winter holidays.[/b]  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]

You just wrote that your children [i]never enjoy Christmas[/i] and you think people should take your parenting advice?[/quote]

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