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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Thanks for the responses. 
This is not to entertain my own dc. That sounds like such a jaded outlook on life. Friendships are important, especially to a teenager. All teens can self entertain with their phones and video game consoles. .[/quote]

We consider vacations family time. We actually spend time with our tween and teens so we don't need about child there.  Yes, it is to entertain your kids as you don't want them on the phones/video games.[/quote]

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I know you're trying to frame this in a way that makes you feel good about yourself by putting others down but you are wrong. Our family has always traveled both as a nuclear unit and with extended friends and families. I find it odd that you wouldn't want to share one of life's joys with others. I guess it's not that odd, since you posted here not to address the question,  but to be anti social.[/quote]

Its not anti-social to use vacations as family time.  I want to enjoy myself and not be bothered with someone else's kids especially at other times they are constantly at my house.  We have traveled with friends and family and each time its been more of a hassle and we end up with the other families kids and the parents don't take ours so its never much fun for us and given the age difference in kids ours usually lose out on what they want to do.

If you do it no strings attached, great but if you are the person expecting something in return or you badmouth the other family its really not best those kids go.  It sounds like you are also wealthy and travel a lot and take expensive vacations and don't realize everyone doesn't live like your or have the same kind of money so asking someone to pay for even plane tickets that they didn't budge for is asking a lot.  And, there is a huge difference in going with other families and just taking someone's kids.  Its really an issue you need to ask the parents about.  We would say no, especially if we didn't know you really well.  Those kind of trips always come with strings or the people use it to say how great they are or how bad the other family is as they didn't do x, y and z.  [/quote]

I think you know your audience. Asking another family to pay the plane fare, when they take multiple trips each year to far off destinations is reasonable. And you never invite someone to do anything with an eye towards expecting reciprocity.

You sound very jaded and unhappy. [/quote]

I would not ask anyone to pay anything and always pay.  However I would never invite another kid on vacation nor would I pay for my child to go on vacation with someone who I barely know.  Most of us don’t take expensive trips multiple times a year.  We take one trip every few years.  The college fund is our priority.   If you invite, you pay. [/quote]

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