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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What puzzles me as a grandparent is why yours would ever want to spend so much time with you, considering how mean and selfish you all are.  We didn’t raise our kids that way and I’ll tell you:  they love to see us and we them.  I feel sorry for you.  [/quote]

Where has anyone been mean or selfish? Like name one mean thing that a poster has said about their parents on this thread.

I think many of us are just confused, because while we'd like to make our parents happy and have meaningful family visits, the expectations for what they envision are just so different than what we actually experienced as kids. And it's not like we were estranged from my grandparents, at all. I feel like our family was pretty close. But unless you lived in the same general area as a an extended family member, the expectation was that you'd see them maybe once a year, if that. You'd talk on the phone and send letters too. People with young kids mostly had holidays at home because of the logistics of school breaks and traveling with little kids. When we did visit family, it would usually be for a full week and it would be spent just relaxing and spending time together.

I am confused as to why my parents seem to envision something so fundamentally different than this. I think that was pretty good![/quote]

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