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[quote=Anonymous]My kids see my dad a lot and my in-laws a fair bit. They've met my mom twice I think? Either way they don't remember meeting her. I have used age-appropriate phrases to explain it to them over the years, but honestly they rarely ask about it! Kids are pretty good at accepting "normal" unless you tell them something is off. Like, they aren't born with the expectation that they should see all their grandparents with relative frequency, so they think their situation is normal. As they get older they may see their friends having different relationships and ask why theirs is the way it is, and I'll explain more to them as they get older, but I wouldn't fret about it now if I were you. If you act like it's normal, it will be a while until they think otherwise, and by that point they'll be older and you can explain that you had a difficult relationship with your mom etc. Honestly, I've learned that kids are pretty accepting of everything unless someone tells them it's wrong. My kids have friends with two moms or two dads or one mom or one dad and never once have they commented on it being "weird" because we've always said families come in all shapes and sizes. [/quote]

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