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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah that’s pretty terrible.  I have a 15 year old DSS and am very lucky that my parents treat him totally equally (down to putting the same amount in his 529 as for their biological grandkids).

I would hold firm.[/quote]

OP here,

My parents are wealthy and they have money set up for college for my kids only. I am only child and they do spoil my kids rotten but I just will love all kids to be included on a holiday trip. It's weird to separate them. My husband parents are really nice and fair with all kids. Ex-wife parents live in a different state. I want all my kids to have nice vacation, money for college and normal childhood experiences. My parents are 65 and 68 years old, excellent health and retired.[/quote]

That sounds nice and all, but I’m thinking of my two children and how hard it is to find common things that they both like for a week for mine in elementary and mine in high school. You are asking a lot of the grandparents to take 4 kids to Paris. [/quote]

OP here,

The trip to Paris is just one example, tickets to concert, and other high end activities they always exclude my step kids. My dh and I have try to be nice and not set boundaries with my parents, but this trip was just the end of it.  
I will allowed my 10 year old daughter to go with my parents and my dh and I will plan a different vacation for the three kids. My 12 year old refused completely. She wants to vacation with her sisters. [/quote]
Her half sisters.[/quote]
🙄 those girls are sisters, they don’t know life without each other, and good for OPs 12 year old for saying she doesn’t want to vacation without her sisters. 12 year olds see things, OP doesn’t have to be sandbagging her parents to her daughter, her daughter can see things with her own eyes.[/quote]

They are half sisters whether you like it or not.and yes they do know lige without each other. The step sisters are gone half the time to their mom's and  leave to go to grandmas.[/quote]
Let me guess you are one of those people that insists on using the phrase “Larlas’ adopted kid” instead of just “Larla’s kid”. OPs 12 year old was born when the other kids were roughly 2 and 4, so yes they know each other as siblings and have no recollection of life without each other as siblings. The idea that because OPs stepkids spend half the week with their mom, they view the other kids as something less than siblings is ridiculous and obviously not true in this circumstance. You sound like an objectively miserable person and I hope to God no one ever has to deal with you as part of their blended family. Blended families aren’t easy and it’s people like you that make it that way. [/quote]

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