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[quote=Anonymous]You're talking about an age where spending time with your parents is the last thing on earth you would want to do.  It doesn't matter really where you vacation.  We have temporarily stopped taking family vacations with our three kids, ages 14, 10, and 4.  They are all introverts and  the stress of packing up, getting somewhere without killing one another and spending too much time on top of one another on a vacation just finally stopped being worth it – at least for now.

Mostly, the tween and the teen want to spend time with their friends and their friends alone.  So we do short weekend trips and have a pool membership and invite friends along for them and have sleepovers a lot.  I still get to see my kids, they have a lot more fun, and I know their friends and get to hear conversations they have so I stay abreast of things.  Ours is considered the "cool" house to go to, and we enjoy it.

We'll go back to family vacations far afield in a year or two.  The 4 year old will probably enjoy it more then too.[/quote]

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