At Funtown USA.
I am still seriously thinking about sending both of the teens to Maine for the upcoming summer so they can work at Funtown and visit with all the grandparents and other relatives, make some money, and just have a good time.
I know I would miss them terribly, and they would probably get homesick as well, but I think it would be a really good experience for them.
It would help them earn money on their own, learn to save and not spend it on junk, they'd get work experience, make new friends, and also get to spend the entire summer visiting with Ninny and Pop-pop, Great Grammy, Aunty Heather, and their cousins Helena and Michael too.
They would be with family and friends, just not with me.
My friend Shell said they can stay at her house with her and her husband Ray, and their son Michael during the week, because they live right down the road from Funtown, and then on weekends when Shell and her family go camping/hunting, they could stay with my parents (Ninny and Pop-pop) or with Great Grammy and Aunty Heather, and do all of the relative visits.
So while I'm seriously considering doing this, and the teens have both said they want to go, I'm wondering what all I would need to do to allow them to spend the whole summer away from me, the custodial parent.
Would I need to get some sort of travel medical insurance?
Would I need to get some papers notarized that would allow all of the people who would be taking care of them, permission to have them medically treated in emergency rooms?
There would be 6 people who would need permission to have them treated medically.
Ninny, Pop-pop, Shell, her husband Ray, Great Grammy, and Aunty Heather.
I would probably also need to copy, and give each person a copy, of the current child custody papers, in case an area hospital asked who the custodial parent is, where that parent is, and I'd probably need to write something up for each person that says who I am, and that I've allowed the teens to be in Maine for the whole summer, and to stay at each physical address of each person who would be taking care of them.
I honestly don't even know where to begin looking for this kind of information.
Any custodial parents ever send their kid(s) away for a month or longer, and know what I would need to do?
It's actually really important that the whole custody thing be right, copies of it to each relative who will be taking care of them, because I have full custody of the teens, and their dad only has Saturday visitation for like 6 hours, (if I'm remembering the terms of the divorce and custody stuff correctly) and both teens have already asked and made it perfectly clear, that they want absolutely nothing to do with their father while they are up there.
They do not want to see him, they do not want to speak with him, they don't want any type of family reunion type stuff where he could just show up and they'd be stuck having to interact with him.
When this idea of them going up there for the whole summer and getting a job there first came up, that was the first thing Mark asked me, demanded I find out actually, because he does not want to see their father at all, wants nothing to do with him.
He said he would like to finally meet all of his half siblings, but not if dad was bringing them to meet.
Mark said it would be cool if Great Grammy and Aunty Heather could get all of the siblings together for an afternoon visit, but no dad.
Mark said if it can't be promised that dad will not be allowed anywhere near them, that he will not go to Maine at all.
So I need to get all of that figured out, promised, and then try to get all of the other legal and medical stuff figured out before spring arrives.
I know, not even winter yet, but if the teens are going to work at Funtown, they would need to apply online by early spring, get all of their references and housing situation stuff sorted out too.
So yeah, any custodial parents send their kids away for a month or longer, and know what kind of legal paperwork I would need to get taken care of?
Thanks for any help you can provide me!
