Schools hols - what would you do?

[FantasticFox27]

No wrong answers here, just interested in responses.

We have 2 teens, 13yo and 15yo so they are more than capable of spending time at home without us during the holidays. I work 4 days pw, dh 5 days pw. We both have a week's worth of holiday to take over the summer - how would you split this?
Part of me thinks just take a week off at the same time and have time altogether, but the other part of me thinks we should stretch it out so the kids aren't on their own for days at a time. E.g. dh and I could take a week off each and have time with the kids on our own. Or we could take half a week at a time so our holidays could be spread over 4 weeks of the holidays. Or something different?
For extra info, I don't work far from my home and always contactable, my parents are close to us and will probably drop in 2-3 times pw and will take the kids out for the day here and there, and fil works very local and can be relied upon in an emergency.

I'm assuming you don't have a "going away holiday" planned as you don't mention this?

At that age, I preferred to spread the holiday so that we minimised the amount of time the DC were at home on their own (or to maximise the time that we were around to be taxi drivers, depending on your point of view :) )

As you work 4 days a week, an idea might be for DH to take a couple of your non-working days off so you can do "family things" on them without you both using holiday?

Agree with this, take random days off to spend with kids but on your non working day, DH takes day off to spend as family time, even if it's just a movie day or a walk by river as I know teenagers not the easiest to please

I spread my holiday now they are teens. A day or two each week. This gives them time to make their own plans and a day I can treat them / go somewhere. Breaks up the holidays for them and spreads out the cost!
Maybe DH could take a couple of your non - working day off to do some whole family days and a couple of other days for him to do some of the running around.

Thanks for the responses. Didn't think of dh taking my regular day off as holiday, that could really work so thank you. Also yes, you assumed right that we aren't going away, we had our family holiday at half term.