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[quote=Anonymous]I think you just make it work as best as you can, and do what you can to fill in the gaps in other ways.

Growing up, my grandparents and other extended families were all overseas. We visited both families when I was an infant, when I was 5, and when I was 13. My mom's parents visited when I was 2, 8, and 19. My mom went home once or twice by herself. My dad's mom (his father died young) visited about every 5 years until she became to frail to travel (when I was in college).  We were lucky in that my mom didn't work, so when we went we could go for 2 months at a time (and my Dad just joined for 2-3 weeks).

It's hard, but they wrote lots of letters, and phoned when they could (long distance was v. expensive back then). As long distance prices came down, that helped a lot to help us stay in touch.

Nowadays, I highly recommend setting them up with internet and using skype or facetime (if you have iphones) to video chat. One of my friends does this with her parents in Europe--they just leave their web cams on in the living room all weekend and at any time they can check-in and see what people are up to. [/quote]

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