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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter is 7. My parents are her only grandparents and they live far away. They just adore her and are eager to see her as much as possible, but obviously the distance prevents it from happening more than a few times a year. That said, when we see them she does seem to have a lot of fun with them.

The main problem is that we are trying to keep up with them weekly by Skype. They look forward to it every week and it's clear that my daughter doesn't. She complains about it, will sit still for only a couple of minutes before wandering off or getting obviously grumpy and downright rude to them. It breaks my heart when she makes it so obvious that she doesn't want to talk to them and it clearly hurts their feelings too.

How would you handle this? I know she's not really going to understand the importance of family in the broadest sense at this age, but I do think it's reasonable to expect that she can be polite to them. I'm at a loss as to how to enforce that without just setting up resentment toward them. (Oh, and it's not just that she doesn't like sitting still for Skype. We have other family members she hardly ever sees that she gets excited to Skype with once in awhile.)

I'm trying to separate out my own very different childhood feelings, as I adored my grandparents when I was a kid, so this makes me sad and I'm hoping she'll appreciate them more as she gets older if we are lucky enough to have them around then. But in the mean time, I need to find a way to cope and to teach her appropriate respect.

Thanks. [/quote]

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