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[quote=Anonymous]In-laws visit several times a year and each time bring 2-3 gifts for each of our 3 kids (plus do gifts for all kids on every kids bday, several for each at xmas etc).  It drives me nuts…mainly bc I hate dealing with all the junk and my 4yo (oldest) is aware enough that I can’t just make things disappear.

4yo wasn’t impressed enough with gifts this time to delight FIL so he started giving DS easy math questions and giving him $10 for every correct answer.  I think in total he gave him like $60 in case and said from now on every day he’s here 4yo would get Qs for money.

Our household economy runs on quarters for rewards and things….giving $60 to a 4yo in one day for dumb questions and planning to do that every day of visits from now on is just crazy right?  I want to shut it down but is that too controlling (my fil is the type who would just try to hide it then bc he has mindset of “I worked hard and can spoil MY grandkids if I want to and mom won’t get in the way”).  If you wouldn’t shut it down, what would you do with a 4yo suddenly having $100s of cash after visits????

Fwiw we don’t need the money for anything - we have plenty so this isn’t a weird way to try to give us money to buy stuff for the kids. They have way too much stuff as is [/quote]

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