Many thanks for the replies!
Can you explain what you mean by 5-5-2-2, and what it's trying to accomplish?
Having been given the duty of figuring this out, or at least trying to, I need to explain the reason behind the new suggestion so I have to understand it
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If there's a way of sharing weekend time, it doesn't necessarily have to been a week on week off (7 days) situation, but because we already do 4-3-4-3, one person always has all weekends, and one all week. This is a lot of work to the person on school duty, and so it seemed this was the next best step to equalize and make matters fair.
In response to the other answer, all holidays other than specific ones swap out every year. So birthdays remain fixed. Mother's day fixed, etc.
Not too interested in the trifling add on make up stuff like meals and so forth as it feels like it interrupts their flow to have less than a 2 day week.
I just want to avoid.. For instance if it's Mother's house turn for spring break, and it's superseded by their week (if we were doing a week on week off situation), they will have their week, spring break and then another week, making it a pretty unacceptably long time in my book to not see my children, or my ex wife not to as well.
Can you explain what you mean by 5-5-2-2, and what it's trying to accomplish?
Having been given the duty of figuring this out, or at least trying to, I need to explain the reason behind the new suggestion so I have to understand it
.If there's a way of sharing weekend time, it doesn't necessarily have to been a week on week off (7 days) situation, but because we already do 4-3-4-3, one person always has all weekends, and one all week. This is a lot of work to the person on school duty, and so it seemed this was the next best step to equalize and make matters fair.
In response to the other answer, all holidays other than specific ones swap out every year. So birthdays remain fixed. Mother's day fixed, etc.
Not too interested in the trifling add on make up stuff like meals and so forth as it feels like it interrupts their flow to have less than a 2 day week.
I just want to avoid.. For instance if it's Mother's house turn for spring break, and it's superseded by their week (if we were doing a week on week off situation), they will have their week, spring break and then another week, making it a pretty unacceptably long time in my book to not see my children, or my ex wife not to as well.