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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s bad that the reason you don’t want to go is because “it’s boring” for your kids. What’s wrong with them? Can’t you teach them to find joy in spending time with family, even if it doesn’t look like child chaos? My only DS still spends a week every summer (and many other one off days) with his 80 year old grandparents and they have an awesome time together - it looks different than at home, but it’s so much fun: he and grandad watch nerd stuff for hours that no one else ever wants to watch, he and grandma do lots of jigsaw puzzles and talk so much. They go for a walk to the coffee shop and he gets a big donut every morning, I dunno it’s really wonderful memories for him. What messaging are you sending to your kids that spending 36 hours with their grandparents is boring? [/quote]

This. It doesn’t sound like you dislike your in laws. It sounds like you were good with doing tgiving with them when there were 20 ppl. It just sounds like the new tgiving with them doesn’t live up to your idea of “fun”. I don’t understand why there’s an expectation that thanksgiving be “fun”. So long as the in-laws aren’t mean or rude or anti kid (doesn’t sound like they are) why does it have to be like a day at skyzone? Why can’t the pleasure be a different kind of enjoyment? [/quote]

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