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[quote=Anonymous]Surely this topic has been covered here before but my kids relationship with one set of grandparents is really burning me and I need to vent. This set of grandparents -who live out of town- has been almost completely disinterested in their grandkids. I say 'almost ompletely' because they are interested enough to go out of their way to assemble all the grandkids for their lovely Holiday Card photo, but after pressuring all their kids and grandkids to travel to attend said photo shoot, showed no interest in playing with or spending time with any of the grandkids -or their grown kids for that matter!. Grandkids range fom preteens to newborn, so it's not an issue of 'oh they're just not comfortable with such and such age kids'.

I am so irritated that we have to go through this charade of the happy family - these people barely know my kids, but we have to lug our kids to see them, and when they visit us, it's all about what they want to do -generally, it's play on their iPhones and sit like statues in my living room. FIL recently turned own a request to play from my kindergartner because he was too busy surfing the web. So sad. It would be easier if we were estranged and isn't have to put on this happy family act.

Sorry for the rant, but I was just finally cleaning up holiday stuff and came across their jolly card and it ticked me off. To see the card, you'd think they were fab grandparents. Reality is they barely make ny effort to get o know the kids - its all for show.

Anyone experience similar, and how do you cope with the fake ness?[/quote]

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