Every other weekend, plus midweek
Alternating weekends with a weekday visit added, either dinner or an overnight. Roughly a 70/30 split depending on how you set it.
Parent A: 9 nights · Parent B: 5 nights · repeats every 14 days · roughly 70/30.
What it is like
The step between every other weekend and an even split, and the one most families move to first. The midweek night is the difference between visiting and being part of the week.
An overnight does considerably more than a dinner. It means a school morning, a packed bag, homework at the table. That is the ordinary stuff.
Suits
Parents close enough to manage a school run. Families easing into more shared time who do not want to jump straight to 50/50. Kids who found every other weekend too thin but are not ready for constant movement.
Harder if
The midweek overnight lands on a heavy activity night, or the drive makes a school morning tight. Pick the day around the week you actually have rather than the one that looks neat on paper.
The mistake people make
Choosing the midweek day by what suits the adults, then discovering it is the night of football training every week. Look at your kid's week first.
Try it with your own dates
Runs entirely in your browser, generated from the same logic as the app. No account, no data sent anywhere.
Putting it on a calendar
Once you have picked something, the app will build it. Choose the pattern, set the start date, and it writes the whole schedule into a shared calendar both houses can see. Change it later and it rebuilds without you redoing the year by hand.
One calendar is free, which is all this needs.