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[quote=Anonymous]Don't push it too much. I have lovely inlaws, who are just so different from my parents (also different culture, different religion). They love our children and also do say they miss them when they don't see them. They live in town but have been away on an assignment for 2 years. When they come to visit, they stop by to see the kids briefly and usually want to go out to dinner with all of us (yet do not react well when the young children can't behave like proper adults in a restaurant and discuss politics, etc.) They buy things for the kids, etc., but usually don't spend quality time. I don't want my children to feel that their grandparents don't love them. They are just formal people who chose to have only one child themselves -- they are not very patient with kids and bore easily of playing with children. They will be much more engaged when the kids can discuss the NY times or the new Yorker. Again, they are good people, but good for different things. Even when they are in town and we have a date, which is rare, we hire a sitter. Kids have more fun and no one is resentful.[/quote]

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