^ you can go ahead and aid and abet truancy if you like. I will teach my kids to follow the rules. That probably makes me a sucker in your book, but that's the way I was raised.

What is interesting to me on this post is that the parents who "never" seem to view their kids as "workers" at a job just like themselves. They are children -- not the same as an adult at his "job".

No, not really OP, but I make a point to take off during teachers workday which is about 3-4 days each school year. We will go for outing or just relax at home instead of sending them to SACC or having a baby sitter. We don't depend on family or others so we work around our schedules to make it work.

They have missed school days due to winter/spring break where we pull them out a day early or return a day late, we don't make it a big deal.

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Anonymous wrote:never. what even prompts such a question?

Read the thread and find out what prompts it. You may even learn something, but I doubt it based on your post.

so just to have a fun day off? Teaching your kids truancy. Wonderful example to set.

Thanks for proving my point about learning something. Sorry for your kids.

By example, you're teaching your kids a lesson for life as well. It's not that one way is necessarily better than another, but it's true that some people have a far stronger work ethic and sense of responsibility than others. I'm sure we all have friends--good people and perhaps more creative and fun than others--who are more carefree about things. Who's to say what's right?

carefree is o.k. Teaching your kids that following the rules is for suckers is not o.k. This is a slippery slope that does not end just with taking an occassional day off school for "fun."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:never. what even prompts such a question?

Read the thread and find out what prompts it. You may even learn something, but I doubt it based on your post.

so just to have a fun day off? Teaching your kids truancy. Wonderful example to set.

Thanks for proving my point about learning something. Sorry for your kids.

By example, you're teaching your kids a lesson for life as well. It's not that one way is necessarily better than another, but it's true that some people have a far stronger work ethic and sense of responsibility than others. I'm sure we all have friends--good people and perhaps more creative and fun than others--who are more carefree about things. Who's to say what's right?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:never. what even prompts such a question?

Read the thread and find out what prompts it. You may even learn something, but I doubt it based on your post.

so just to have a fun day off? Teaching your kids truancy. Wonderful example to set.

Thanks for proving my point about learning something. Sorry for your kids.

so you like teaching your kids truancy is okay? Some people apparently believe following the rules are for suckers. I won't comment on the possible effect on your kids as I believe that is below the belt.

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Anonymous wrote:never. what even prompts such a question?

Read the thread and find out what prompts it. You may even learn something, but I doubt it based on your post.

so just to have a fun day off? Teaching your kids truancy. Wonderful example to set.

Thanks for proving my point about learning something. Sorry for your kids.

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Anonymous wrote:never. what even prompts such a question?

Read the thread and find out what prompts it. You may even learn something, but I doubt it based on your post.

so just to have a fun day off? Teaching your kids truancy. Wonderful example to set.

Sometimes we wake up and we are tired. Oh well! Suck it up and go to work. Sometimes we wake up and have a headache. Oh well, take a Tylenol...you will probably be fine in an hour. You don't go to work or school when you are actually sick-- which usually means a fever and/or throwing up.

That is why we have annual and sick leave. Unless you have something important scheduled on a given day, you can take off up to a certain number of days per year.

Yes, occasionally but not often. He's doing well in school and sometimes it is nice to just have a day to do something special together when things aren't as crowded as on the weekends.

Anonymous wrote:never. what even prompts such a question?

Read the thread and find out what prompts it. You may even learn something, but I doubt it based on your post.

tomorrow, April 15, is a student holiday in Fairfax County Public Schools. Then there are the teacher work-days, the regular holidays, the few days when DC is sick, the closures for weather. So many days off already.

Anonymous wrote:Yes,mental health days are great. Nothing wrong with me or two days a yr for them to decompress, jut like at work we get days off. And thus is a way to show kids howmto use them. I'm all for it.

Me, too. Or for making beautiful memories. My children are very young, so I've only taken them out for the White House Easter Egg Roll or time with a grandparent who was in decline. But, I imagine it would be a great way to bond with them as pre-teens and beyond. You never know what might pop up in conversation during a grown up lunch downtown on a surprise day off from school.

I don't cancel plans with friends or skip work if something better comes along. I follow through on obligations and fit other things in around that. My kids go to school as their obligation and they too fit other things in around it. Our school's policy for unexcused absence make-up work is pretty restrictive so my kids know school is their priority. I also don't allow them to flake out on team commitments or other commitments without really good reasons.

Yes,mental health days are great. Nothing wrong with me or two days a yr for them to decompress, jut like at work we get days off. And thus is a way to show kids howmto use them. I'm all for it.