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[quote=Anonymous]No experience with this but it seems problematic to never have the three kids together, and to never have off-time as a single parent, which is critical when single parenting.

If you are going for 1-1 alone time with the kids, perhaps work out a rotation that allows for 24 hours or a weekend for each kid with each parent (meaning the "on" parent gives that time up to send them to the "off" parent).

So if Dad has the kids Weeks 1 and 3 and Mom has the kids Weeks 2 and 4, then Fridays of Week 1 Mom gets Brayden alone, Saturdays of Week 1 Mom gets Jayden alone, and Sundays of Week 1 Mom gets Cayden alone. Dad does the same for Week 2. This still allows for maintaining the regular schedule and for alone time (with a potential weekend away) for parents.

This works for small kids. Hard to enforce family-time over social-time for older children, and for high schoolers they also need to focus on work and extracurriculars so it's even hard to enforce family-time on weekday evenings.

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