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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand you can't force it, and I have a FIL who chooses not to engage with our kid with no physical inability to do so, but why do they bother to visit then? What exactly do they think is going to happen on a visit to a house with very young children who can't do museum visits and such. My ILs have the expectation that our 4 year old, whom they have no interest in reading to, watching a show with, anything, should be silent and leave them in complete peace while they read their books or play on their iPads. In our house. If she so much as asks one of us, not them as she has long stopped trying, to read, play or take her to the park, they sigh audibly and roll their eyes at the interruption.

Why visit? What purpose does it serve?[/quote]

So they can tell their friends that they visited you.  If you don't want them to visit, just let them know.[/quote]

Pp your ils should stay at a hotel and you and you dh should only bother to meet them for a meal or two. They are guests in your home but treat your dc rudely. I would not let them treat my child like a second class citizen.[/quote]

Well, how they treat our child is an entire subject in and of itself that causes many issues in our household. Not playing with her and acting exasperated when she acts like a child in her own home are just the tip of the iceberg. If they treat #2 differently when he arrives because he's a boy (which I suspect they will) we'll be having WWIII in our house.

And in our case, it's not for photo ops. In 4 years worth of visits I think there are maybe 4-5 photos of our daughter with them. Honestly, they don't want to put down their books or iPads long enough to even snap a photo. So I really don't get it. [/quote]

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