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[quote=Anonymous]Every time my parents visit for one of their long stays (they live a flight away and therefore stay for a week-plus) a lot of DS's good behavior seems to disappear, at least temporarily. For example, he's 3 years old and does just fine feeding himself, but for whatever weird reason, I catch my mother spoon-feeding him as if he's 9 months old again. Then, after the go home, he pitches a fit when I tell him to feed himself.

Or, another example: he sits just fine on a chair while flipping through a book but after they visit, he won't sit in a chair. He has to sit in your lap like a baby and has a fit when you tell him he can sit by himself just fine. Sure, we don't mind our kid sitting on your lap for fun, but when you need to make dinner or catch up on another task, it's nice when he can sit quietly and play at the table himself.

Again, I know it's my mom, who sits with him on her lap for long periods of time and holds him like he's an infant (I've actually caught her cradling him like an infant too). I realize grandparents like to do this stuff, but it's making our home life harder when we need to reset his "big boy" skills. Anyone dealing with this? How can we nip it in the bud without hurting feelings? [/quote]

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