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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I finally started telling my DH that he was responsible for taking the kids to see their grandparents and vacationing with their grandparents because I don't get much vacation and I don't feel like spending it running interference for our kids with his family. (They are a nightmare.)

When I stopped going, DH stopped going so much. If it isn't important enough for him to put in the work, I don't see why it is important enough for me to put in the work. [/quote]

Yep, I have considered that but the truth is I don't really trust him with them around all this water.  Yesterday he gave the 4yo a baited fishing rod and walked away.  My very independent child wanted to cast.  Luckily he hit himself in the face with the bobber, not the hook, but seriously?  And then there was when he sent the kid off on a paddle board without a rescue plan in mind ... I'm all for teaching independence and water skills but I had the kayak in the water and caught the kid seconds before he crashed into a tree jutting out from shore while DH stood there watching.  I don't think I am a helicopter parent but I want to know my kids actually know how to paddle, steer, cast a line, whatever before I sit on the dock watching (at least, sit there without having done the mathematical calculation of how quickly I can swim or get in a kayak and get to them before they damage themselves or others).[/quote]

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