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Posters here are crazy - OP is saying she works long hours and has difficulty accommodating frivolous requests for last-minutes changes in schedule.

You're all raising spoiled brats if you think OP should bend over backwards to fulfill all these capricious whims.

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I don't think anyone here is saying OP should bend over backwards to fulfill every capricious whims, what we're saying is that these kids should have their parents present in a way they can rely on. I don't do 7 pm Target runs either, but my kids do know that if they ask if we can go to District Taco for dinner one night this week, I will look at the calendar and figure out a night it can happen. It might not be the day they ask (although sometimes it is if that's the best day to do it), but they can count on me to make them a priority and have those evenings where I am focused on them. OP's child has told her point blank that she knows it's pointless to ask OP to spend an evening with the kids because she'll say no and work instead. And then when she came here to post about it and people offered constructive suggestions for having a better relationship with her child, OP whined some more and then disappeared.

I will not pretend I get every parenting decision right and I'm sure there are things OP does better than me, but one thing I am confident about is that my kids know they can rely on me and that I'm there for them. Can OP say the same about her relationship with her kids? If not, that's a really big problem that needs to be addressed.[/quote]

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