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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here...these grandparents are 60ish and fairly spry. I totally get that they aren't into playing with kids! [b]But I think I'm hurt that they never call to ask what the kids are up to or ask about milestones for the baby - new tooth? Crawling? That type of thing. Zero interest. [/b]And yet theyvputvon this show to friends and acquaintances that they're so overjoyed to be grandparents. I find it very disingenuous. visits -whether we go to them or they come here- [b]are all about what they want to do. Kennedy Center play in the evening? Not baby friendly. [/b]

Definitely not trying to be a jerk to them and would live for them to have. Real relationship with the kids. The reality is disappointing.[/quote]

If they have grandkids ranging from preteen to babies -- sounds like they have a number of grandkids. I'm sorry but your baby's new tooth or crawling is just not a fascination by the time they get to grandkid number 4 or 8 or whatever it is. I don't blame them for not caring -- they've raised their kids and probably cared a bit about these "important" milestones for the first one or two grandkids and then it was like -- ok -- all kids get teeth,  let's get over it. They also likely are over the baby/little kid thing altogether. Everyone likes a cute kid -- hence the showing of pictures -- but many/most don't care for kid activities and kid talk. It's your job as the parents to dote over Aidan on the big boy jungle gym -- not theirs -- and they are of the generation where they probably didn't even dote on their kids' "accomplishments" that much. If they're into things like events at the Kennedy Center, they will relate to grandkids better when they are older teens and adults you know -- can actually have intelligent conversations; they may just have no interest in going to "kid friendly" things.[/quote]

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