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[quote=Anonymous]Our kids, all under 10, have liked talking with my family once in a while. They've had nice phone calls and usually, after about 10-15 minutes, I take the smartphone away because i don't want my kids thinking my phone is for them. Same goes for my laptop and Zoom. After many months of this, the kids are starting to lose interest in talking with my sister and parents. They've started handing the phone to me to go play outside or watch a TV show after 5 minutes. I'm not going to force them to sit through the long, question-filled conversation my mom likes to foist on them. My oldest one, who is nine, is already complaining.

I've limited the calls to once every two weeks or so, but they'll still text asking to talk to the kids. I've tried to tell them nicely, the kids are doing school work, playing, running around outside, but my family is now getting indignant. They've always had big issues with boundaries and are now behaving as if they're entitled to long calls with my kids and if my kids don't want to participate in these calls, then I'm a mean person who doesn't enforce how important auntie and grandma are. And again, my kids are not using my phone as they see fit, and i'm not buying them one for this purpose, either. My own grandparents and other relatives were never like this. I don't know where my family gets this behavior from other than they're becoming increasingly entitled as they age. My in-laws don't behave this way. I really need them to pull back on this and they refuse to.

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