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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If my mom and dad and two sisters went on vacation without me -- the whole family but me -- I'd be spending a LOT of time the therapist's office when older. That's a slight a kid will never forget.[/quote]

My parents routinely left me with my grandparents and went on vacation without me. I barely give it a thought - it was a vacation for me too, with people I LOVED, who spoiled me in all sorts of ways my parents wouldn't. I loved going with them. I HAVE gone to a therapist twice as an adult, and neither time was this fact anywhere on the list of things I needed to discuss. They're not putting the kid in foster respite care here - he'd be with loving family members. It's good for everybody to get a break sometimes. What OP is saying is that he can count on his two oldest to entertain themselves safely during the day and behave appropriately, but his son is a wild card between his age and diagnosis. That's all. [/quote]

Adult vacations without kids is entirely different. Did they take your siblings, too? To a kid location?[/quote]

Yep. I got to stay with the dog and the grandparents. Sure, the Family vacation would have been great, but staying with my grandparents was great too, just in a different way. I was a REALLY difficult kid and just as they needed a break from me, it helped me to have a break from them. From always having to hear them being annoyed with me, from always feeling like whatever I did was wrong or not good enough. I appreciated the break too. [/quote]

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