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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish my in laws would show some interest in DC.  One of my brothers in laws actually warned us not ot get our hopes up, calling them "dead beat grandparents."  They had a large family, have a lot of grandkids, are both retired, and seem perfectly happy to do their own thing.  I can't remember the last time they called DH.  Maybe his birthday? They're good kind people, just focused on their own thing.  I guess everyone is different.[/quote]

OP here. My kids are my parents' only grandchildren, so the hyperfocus is on us. We always joke that we wish our siblings had kids to spread the attention around. I wish there was a something in between they would aim for. I'd love to hear my parents say they are taking a long cruise around South America or something all on their own instead of visiting us. I wouldn't feel offended at all. I feel like their interest in our kids is just overboard and that they put too much into them. For example, one of my mother's cousins was having an anniversary party about three hours away. My family was going to attend but a few things came up and it was just too much with small kids. My parents seemed intent on going-- after all, my mom grew up with this cousin-- but once she heard we weren't going, she backed out as well, saying, well, the grandkids won't be there, so we decided it wasn't worth going." It's stuff like this that bugs me. [/quote]

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