pocomom
Brr.....
- Joined
- Oct 20, 2012
I don't get how a week is too long? Many parents whose work requires to travel have to leave their kids for longer periods. My second son will be 19 in 2 days. The first time I left him he was 9 months old. I didn't see him for three months... because I was in Air Force basic training and tech school. Missed his first birthday. Since that time I have missed many birthdays and holidays related to the military. For some leaving kids is not a choice, however, a choice or voluntary, the kid is not going to suffer or have long-term issues because of a week without his mom. I am sure the grandparents extra doses of attention and affection.
I never said a week vacation without them is going to mean your child ends up a deliquent or something. But I FEEL from my PERSONAL experience raising three babies at that age a week would be too long to leave them if I could avoid it. That age is the peak of seperation anxiety for some kids, and it is not like you can explain to them and have them understand what is going on. For the record my kids have no long term affects from falling down, or from someone saying something mean to them when they were this little either but I would have still tried to avoid it if could. Parenting is about now too, not just whether a child will suffer long term consequences.