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[quote=Anonymous]My parents moved across the country to a house ten minutes away after we had our first kid three years ago. We've since had two more kids, last one two weeks ago. My parents have a habit of saying they want to help and then flaking. That's fine, we don't ever depend on them for childcare and whenever we see them or they help with the kids we consider it a nice surprise. Sometimes though, it does get to me and I get upset. My dad hasn't met the new baby yet, my mom has been over a few times but didn't help just saw the baby for a few minutes and left. This week they offered to take our oldest for the day, she was very excited because she loves her grandparents and they give her ice cream and let her watch tv all day (we don't care and have never criticized this). Well this morning I texted them to say what time we'd drop her off and suddenly they're busy with house stuff all day. This was after offering all week, saying how much they wanted to help etc. Daughter is sad, and the day we thought we'd have with the baby and middle kid is shot.

I know the key to this is rock bottom expectations but it's still shitty being disappointed by them. [/quote]

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