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<blockquote data-quote="EB67" data-source="post: 56372" data-attributes="member: 3750"><p>Clearly your dad has a stronger bond with the easy child's as he has a stronger personal history with them and they are undoudbetdly easier to travel with. That said, to offer only the easy child's a vacation would only cause tension in your family as others have said. I think it was fair to the difficult child's to call off the trip for the easy child's and I am sure that the easy child who is annoyed with you will understand that the appearence of favoritism would cause problems for the whole family unit.</p><p></p><p>As others suggested, seperate vacation seem like a good idea as there are so many family members. Would your dad be willing to make the Florida trip twice at different points in time? As in, he can take the easy child's (maybe +1 difficult child now?) and then the other three kids on another date? Or if two Florida trips is too elaborate perhaps the family could plan two seperate trips with 3 kids on each trip? I'm sure with 3 kids (let alone 3 difficult child's) there will be less pandemonium and more quality time spent.</p><p></p><p>Let us know how it unravels.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EB67, post: 56372, member: 3750"] Clearly your dad has a stronger bond with the easy child's as he has a stronger personal history with them and they are undoudbetdly easier to travel with. That said, to offer only the easy child's a vacation would only cause tension in your family as others have said. I think it was fair to the difficult child's to call off the trip for the easy child's and I am sure that the easy child who is annoyed with you will understand that the appearence of favoritism would cause problems for the whole family unit. As others suggested, seperate vacation seem like a good idea as there are so many family members. Would your dad be willing to make the Florida trip twice at different points in time? As in, he can take the easy child's (maybe +1 difficult child now?) and then the other three kids on another date? Or if two Florida trips is too elaborate perhaps the family could plan two seperate trips with 3 kids on each trip? I'm sure with 3 kids (let alone 3 difficult child's) there will be less pandemonium and more quality time spent. Let us know how it unravels. [/QUOTE]
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