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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We spend a lot of time at my dad’s in the summer. Here are my suggestions beyond what you are already doing (which are all good):

* you mention buying food and cleaning up, but I would add cooking meals to that list
* keep the kids upstairs/downstairs/out of the house during the times of day that they are louder or more wild. My dad lives alone and is used to quiet and kids can really disrupt that. Even the most patient grandparent will lose their patience with that much of a change for 3 weeks. 
* Just in general try to get the kids out of the house for awhile at least once every day. My dad lives at the beach, so we head there every day for a few hours so he has the house to himself to get things done without noise/interruption.
* if a kid starts having any kind of tantrum at all, remove them from the common areas to deal with it
* we make sure our kids always greet grandpop in the morning and say goodnight (we do with hugs, but you do you). It goes a long way towards good vines all around.

Hopefully these don’t seem to harsh, but 3 weeks is a long time. [/quote]

And do NOT wake up early and disrupt the sleeping kids or grandparents. No one thinks you’re cool or important banging around at 6 am and getting little kids riled up. They should stay in their rooms until 8am. [/quote]

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