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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for judging all of our grandparents. My parents are in their 60s, very active and have no trouble chasing down my 3 kids. I do pay for daycare and babysitting while we're out of town to help my parents. They basically just have to care for them from 5pm onwards.

My parents love our kids. My dad has workbooks and works with each one of the kids separately daily on their workbooks. He teaches them Spanish, math and how to read.

My parents live on our street and are really familiar with our routines. They stay at our home when we're out of town so that the kids have their own rooms, but each kid has a bedroom at the grandparents too and they like sleepovers. [/quote]

I never mentioned other grandparents! Just the ones in my situation.  One set would LOVE to take the kids for long periods but they just can't keep them safe (their only behavioral management approach is begging and pleading so the kids realize they entirely have the upper hand and pull shit they'd never do with anyone else) nor can they move fast enough for my very physical 3 year old who sees he has the upper hand with them.  They also aren't super steady on the stairs to go up and down it several times a day carrying my 10mo or have the energy level to handle both night wakings and early mornings and a 4 year old who no longer naps and goes goes goes all day.

The other set is more realistic about their abilities (they know they can handle 1 kid for a week, 2 kids for 2 days / 1 night and 3 kids for like 2 hours) so their judgement is better in terms of not getting in over their head.

All 4 grandparents are great for my kids to be around but in terms of keeping up with the day in day out physicial grind of managing 3 such little kids, someone else is better.[/quote]

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