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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grandma needs to get told that if she keeps complaining about this, he'll switch to wanting to spend NO time with her at all.[/quote]

That would not be helpful on any way whatsoever. [/quote]

It might be if delivered gently. She was a mother to teens once too. Draw on your own experience, or that of a sibling, OP. Help your mom remember part of this is an age appropriate developmental task even though it sucks and hurts. (That said, it is developmentally appropriate for a teen to pull away from their family and lean in with friends, but that doesn't mean they should be given a universal hall pass and never expected to show up and spend time with their family. There is a balance.)[/quote]

My kids grew up seeing their grandma every day. They had such a special relationship with her but as they got older and more involved in activities and hanging out with friends they spent less and less time with grandma. Once they started working part time that cut the time they had with grandma even more.

It was a healthy and necessary developmental stage for the kids to spend more and more time away from their adult family members but I know it saddened grandma to not see the kids like she did when they were little. That time of life had passed and the kids were moving towards becoming independent adults just as they should have been.

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