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[quote=Anonymous]Grandparents are lonely and want to engage. They are happy to have company but also they are unhappy bc no one did 'fill in the blank' when they needed support. They don't know how to engage with teens and get nervous. Teens are bad at engaging with grandparents and get nervous. Parents try to fake it and be overly sensitive to everything. Grandparent wants to speak up but is a poor communicator. Set your own boundary about what you will do and where you will stay and how much interaction you will encourage. A solution my friend found for holiday visits taught her teens to play some card games so now that gives her teens something to do with their grandfather and it cuts down on the need for conversation. [/quote]
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