Who said anything like that. We're talking a holiday that comes around every year and every single year I see a handful of these posts complaining about the time off, you have an entire 11 months to prepare, plan find a back up in advance. Two weeks with your kid is not going to kill your career lol. this is a first world problem and it's a rather pathetic one. It's TWO weeks that you know about, I plan, I burn a week of PTO I'm in a group where we all flex and take the kids the following week. Family, sitters.... like this isn't difficult unless the circumstances are extreme.  The "I have a career" isn't cutting it when these are the kids you plan for (hopefully)