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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Millennial here in this situation. It doesn’t bother me that our parents live their lives and are having fun, what bothers me are the snide remarks about how much money we spend on childcare.  [/quote]

Late Gen X'er here, with the same opinion.  My parents are early Boomers (born in the late 40s) and, due to infertility, DH and I didn't have our kids until our late 30s, so I have a combo of older parents and very young children.  My dad is still perfectly capable of handling my kids, but my mom has lots of health issues, so we don't depend on them for any sort of help at all.  I'm fine with that - after all, they're our kids.  But it drives me crazy when my mom makes comments about the cost of our childcare, or how she doesn't understand why DH and I don't go out together more often, or take weekends to travel together, that sort of thing.  She and my dad did those sort of things all the time when I was a child, but my grandmother and 2 of my aunts lived within 10 minutes of us, and they watched me all the time.  My mom went back to work after I was born, and my parents never paid a cent on childcare, because family was always available to take care of me.  DH and I don't have that option.  For some reason, my mom can't see the difference in our situations.[/quote]

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