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<blockquote data-quote="helpmeplease" data-source="post: 38185" data-attributes="member: 3662"><p>Thanks everyone....After I posted this I thought more and more about it. I've decided to find names and numbers of day camps in the area so that I can provide him with a list of safe places for her to be during the day. His ex-wife loves my daughter very much and I'm sure would be willing to spend some time with her even though she has left daughter's dad. I may call her for some input. My parents live an hour away and my dad is retired, so maybe I can arrange some time when I know daughter's dad will be working long hours for her to spend at my parents place overnight or something. They live too far for him to drop her off in the morning and pick up after work, but if he's got a long day ahead of him, my dad can maybe pick her up.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I've pretty much decided that she will be going the full 8 weeks that we had planned and I will talk to him about things that can be done to keep her out of trouble while he's at work. If she has to stay home alone a couple days a week, it's probably not so bad. He works early hours and is sometimes home by 2pm. Considering she sleeps til 11 or noon half the time, that only leaves her with 2-3 hours of free time. I'm going to insist that at least some of the time, she is with a responsible adult or day camp and/or that he uses as much vacation time as possible while she's there. I will call her to check on her and if I get a bad feeling about what she's doing, I can call my dad to drive over there and check it out.</p><p></p><p>I was alot like her and at that age, I was fine as long as my parents weren't home to bug me. Maybe she will be okay.</p><p></p><p>We are starting a girlfriend diet, so maybe that will help some too. I'll talk to her dad about that though I highly doubt he will agree with me on that one. He thinks I'm a crazy hippy freak as it is and has probably never heard of gluten.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="helpmeplease, post: 38185, member: 3662"] Thanks everyone....After I posted this I thought more and more about it. I've decided to find names and numbers of day camps in the area so that I can provide him with a list of safe places for her to be during the day. His ex-wife loves my daughter very much and I'm sure would be willing to spend some time with her even though she has left daughter's dad. I may call her for some input. My parents live an hour away and my dad is retired, so maybe I can arrange some time when I know daughter's dad will be working long hours for her to spend at my parents place overnight or something. They live too far for him to drop her off in the morning and pick up after work, but if he's got a long day ahead of him, my dad can maybe pick her up. Anyway, I've pretty much decided that she will be going the full 8 weeks that we had planned and I will talk to him about things that can be done to keep her out of trouble while he's at work. If she has to stay home alone a couple days a week, it's probably not so bad. He works early hours and is sometimes home by 2pm. Considering she sleeps til 11 or noon half the time, that only leaves her with 2-3 hours of free time. I'm going to insist that at least some of the time, she is with a responsible adult or day camp and/or that he uses as much vacation time as possible while she's there. I will call her to check on her and if I get a bad feeling about what she's doing, I can call my dad to drive over there and check it out. I was alot like her and at that age, I was fine as long as my parents weren't home to bug me. Maybe she will be okay. We are starting a girlfriend diet, so maybe that will help some too. I'll talk to her dad about that though I highly doubt he will agree with me on that one. He thinks I'm a crazy hippy freak as it is and has probably never heard of gluten. [/QUOTE]
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