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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents did some ridiculously callous things by today's standards, but this stands out in my mind as the most egregious: My dad dropped us off at Disney World and went to the airplane museum and flew a biplane. He still brags about it today. Gets all salty and eye-rolly when I remind him that in doing so he also abandoned four kids at Disney for the entire day (open to close), with the oldest being about 11 or 12.

Maybe abandoned is dramatic? We were fine, in fact I (the oldest) even contemplated leading the group to Pleasure Island once it started getting dark and he wasn't back yet. But can you imagine that now? Two 11- or 12-year olds, a 9-year-old and a 5-year-old! No cell phones, either. Oy.[/quote]

I think this is fine. I mean, I know it's illegal so I wouldn't do it. But I have kids with a 9 yr age gap and absolutely let the two older ones go off together while I stayed with the two younger ones in the baby section of amusement parks. They had watches and we had a meeting point. We'd agree "We will meet here at 11:45, it's 9am now" and off they'd go. They were around 9 and 12 when I started doing this. [/quote]

PP here. I don't think we had any set time other than plan to get picked up when the park closed. I would agree your plan is OK; I think my dad was a lot more careless about it. Just like, whatever, see you later, I'm going to do my own thing several miles away and nobody can reach each other!

Actually what I think annoys me more is his bragging about flying a plane. And each time he tells the story, the plane gets more exotic. Last time he told me the story (as if I wasn't there and haven't heard it a million times), it was a fighter jet he flew. I can assure you, it was not a fighter jet...lol. I remind him of the "abandonment" to bring him back down a notch. And I still think it's crazy and not particularly responsible.

He wasn't a bad dad and he isn't a bad person by any means, but I do think he put his own interests first. Never wanted to drive us to activities. Was a serial cheater and used to bring the women around us when my mom was gone (which was a lot). He actually stopped bringing them around if I was there after I told him I was "going to slash that bitch's tires if I see her car again." I was MAYBE 13. But if I wasn't home, he'd bring them around my brother and sister, who were younger and less aware of what was going on.[/quote]

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