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[quote=Anonymous]We have this exact same dynamic with my MIL (I’m her DIL and my SIL is her daughter).  We each have two kids and each “set” is the exact same age (6 weeks apart for one set, and two weeks apart for the other!).  It’s so annoying.  I just keep things vague and respond politely with an “oh? How nice” when she responds to a requested update on my child with what the cousin is doing.  My MIL also digs for information and then buys my niece and nephew literally everything that my kids have (their clothes, their toys, their playhouse, their paddling pool) and it drives me up a wall.  My kids are even generally perceived to be more well-behaved than their cousins and I’m generally perceived to be the more competent and “better” mother (my SIL is a mess and my MIL basically runs her entire life and watches the kids full time, which is a whole other can of worms), but the entire dynamic still grates.  I just want my kids to have some attention of their own from their grandmother. Just commiserating, OP![/quote]

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