[benjaminpv]

Absolutely this. My parents would take an impromptu vacation toward the tail end of winter and every time they basically just told the school 'we're leaving, give him the homework he'll be missing, end communication.'

Years later I was having dinner with a coworker and his teacher wife and explained it to her. "Yeah we'd go to like science exhibits and museums and all, it was really fun!" She was just aghast. Like 'y-you can't just t-take kids out of school?!'

[antisthenes]

> Years later I was having dinner with a coworker and his teacher wife and explained it to her. "Yeah we'd go to like science exhibits and museums and all, it was really fun!" She was just aghast. Like 'y-you can't just t-take kids out of school?!'

Some people treat their job as if it's the most important thing in the world, to everyone.

Dentists still can't realize that flossing isn't everyone's #1 priority every single day :P

[ghaff]

It occurred to me probably years later that there were a ton of things my parents did with respect to my brother and I growing up were, at a minimum, quite unconventional.