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[quote=Anonymous]My dad is local, 75 and in good health, travels a lot. When he is here, I only ask him to pick up or otherwise babysit when I am in a jam or know we will need something relatively minor way ahead of time. Example: a month ago I had a meeting a mile away that wasn't going to end until a half hour after my youngest kid's bus dropped him off. So I asked him a couple weeks in advance if he was free. Other times I have been stuck in traffic and called to see if he was closer to the kids' school/bus stop than I was. Regular pickups and date nights that aren't something very special I wouldn't expect. And I think that would be the same if this were my mom, too (she died before we had kids.) However, my husband's sister lives in another state in the same town as her mother (my MIL) and her MIL, and they combined to be her regular child care for two kids until they were school-aged. So you never know.[/quote]
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