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[quote=Anonymous]How do you handle large age gaps  between cousins? My children and my sister’s two older children are very close and grew up living like siblings. 12 years later my sister and bil had another child.

Obviously I’m a jerk for even thinking about this but I find myself having scaled back on the time the cousin spend together because now that the kids are older teens/tweens the four year old tags along and I have to entertain the four year old while the older cousins play.

I feel like a jerk for even thinking about not including him when we do stuff. Is there a scenario where I’m not a jerk for this? on top of it all I have family pressure by my parents to have the cousins (implied everybody).

Just as an example the other day the cousins wanted to go to Tysons corner and I felt obligated to also bring little cousin so he wouldn’t feel left out. Guess who hung out with the 4 year old?

And this may or may not make a difference but my sister never has my kids over it’s a very one-sided relationship but that’s an entirely different conversation.

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