Maybe you need to stress that it's less about face time and more about what you get out of school when you're there. Something tells me that she would get more out of that week if she would come back and have a show and tell in front of her class describing where she was and what she did than if she would have stayed in school that same week.
It also helps is the school believes the same way.....luckily ours does. On 7/13/07, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks - time for that family advice question. > > Like Rick, I too will be sending off my daughter to Kindergarten... in > the fall, we don't have year-round schools here. > > I am running into a family issue that I have found myself in the > middle of. My family is "down south" and one of the things that was > promised to my mother when I moved 1500 miles away was the promise to > visit at least once per year. Traditionally this has been > Thanksgiving. > > Additionally my cousin's wedding is on our 10th anniversary which is > Memorial Day next year. > > As for school, my wife does not want to pull our daughter out of > school for any reason. She wants our daughter to understand the > importance of school. This is what's causing the problem - for > Thanksgiving our school gives my daughter Thursday and Friday off. > Memorial Day is just the Monday of the holiday. > > My mom has already purchased plane tickets for us for the Thanksgiving > trip but because they used miles had to schedule the flight down on > the Saturday before and back on either Saturday or Sunday. This has > infuriated my wife because my mom has trumped my wife's wishes when it > comes to our daughter. > > Personally I want my daughter to go to my cousin's wedding. My wife > and I are planning on going down for the wedding and then taking a > week to stay at the timeshare where we had our honeymoon. My mom and > step-dad have agreed to watch the kids while we do. I want to take > both kids but my wife is insisting that because there is only Monday > off she stay with my mother-in-law so she can go to school the rest of > the week. This means that she misses the wedding, which she has been > asked to be a part of. > > My take is that it's Kindergarten and this is an important family > event. My wife's take is that it's school and my daughter has to > learn the importance of school from the beginning, kindergarten or > not. > > Thoughts, ideas, grease to get me out of this sticky situation?? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:238366 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
