Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

Vacations can be lots of fun?but what usually happens is that you need a vacation to recover from the vacation.

There?s all these things that are stacked against you:

• The long car/plane trips
• The unfamiliar beds
• The late nights
• The early mornings
• The whiny kids

For the family with children?especially small children?vacations can become ?having the same stresses we have around our house, without the comforts of our house.?  You know what I mean, you?ve tried it.  What you truly need is some time that you can spend away from them to get to know your spouse better and so that you can better parent them.

The thing is, there are very few people that you probably trust to watch your children for one night, let alone multiple nights.  And then there are the children.  How would they respond to Mom and Dad being gone for multiple days?

The best thing to do is to plan to have an extended trip some time in the future, and then start building up to it.  Have some weekends where you spend the night away, or have them go to a relatives? house.

From there, work your way up to a longer vacation.

I?m not saying you don?t love your children.  I?m not saying that you should spend as much time away from them as possible.

What I am saying is that you need some time with your spouse, alone, if for nothing else than the chance to sleep in!

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