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Long Distance and Holidays

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Just looking into what others do that live far from the other parent do for holidays. My DD goes with her father every weekend Saturday-Monday (until she starts school next year). Her father lives 3 hours away so when holidays fall on certain days it seems to call for a lot of driving. We agreed to rotate holidays every other year.
Do you adjust the schedule? For example if the holiday is on a Thursday, change the visit to Thursday-Saturday? Or do you give the parent an extended weekend? Or something else?
TIA.

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BEAN *06/29/2012*

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Re: Long Distance and Holidays

  • MinnesotaMomma91MinnesotaMomma91 member
    I dont have any personal experience with stuff, but my advice would be to adjust parenting time for the week just to keep driving.time down.

    That being said i dont think there is a clear cut answer here. I think as long.both you and your ex are in agreement about what would be be
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  • freeatlast2014freeatlast2014 member
    You guys can do whatever you want and what works for you both. Whatever it is though, I would make it consistent and predictable so it's easy to follow and your LO can adjust and know what to expect.

    I might give the option to start on Thursday and go until his regular day when he would return her. I just worked out an entire holiday schedule and tried to include every possible holiday and break so it was clear for everyone and will allow us to plan vacations at some point down the line. I got great advice on this from blended families board because most of them have visitation arrangements.
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