luv2hack,
No one can understand another’s personal pain. Let’s try to be kind to everyone, because no one has a monopoly on pain, and your pain does not mitigate the problems of unhappy children who are shuffled to and fro because of excessive off-days.
Please re-read- some of us do not GET to “spend a week” with the children, because our employers do not allow us to do so. The complaint isn’t about spending “quality time” planting seeds in the backyard, it is about the difficulty of placing children in an assortment of places when all they want is to be home.
May Hashem bentch you with your desires, and may this year be one of Simcha for you and all of Klal Yisrael.