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[quote=Anonymous]Our family gets together at the beach for a few weekends spread out across the summer. It's ok, except that my sister is very hands off in her parenting. i.e. she'll get up and feed herself, but not her kids (age 4 and 7). So inevitably, I'm making breakfast for my own kids and I wind up feeding her kids too. Or she'll got to take a nap with her younger one and just kind of leave the older one hanging around without anything to do. So again, somebody else winds up tending to him when he needs it. (She's divorced, so there's no other parent to help out.)  None of this would be a big deal, except that 1. her kids are pretty needy and 2. it's habitual and she never steps up to help out with anyone else. I haven't said anything to her because she's tends to flip out with criticism and it's easier to avoid the issue than to dig into that can of worms. But I am getting resentful and I've stopped going to the beach when she's there. Thoughts? Anybody in a similar boat? [/quote]

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