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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, I'm team teenagers here. Two wrongs don't make a right, but you're telling me that the kids should just forget that the grandparents wanted nothing to do with them when they were kids and all of a sudden it should be water under the bridge? Uh-uh. And your MIL sounds like a real peach to comment on your parenting 15 years after you've been doing a good job. 
 I think back to my childhood and my grandparents would come to gymnastics meets and dance recitals, or just hang out with us, and it wasn't a case of my parents looking for a handout or free babysitting. My grandparents genuinely wanted to spend time with us and my parents. [/quote]

My story is different, but the result was the same. I was in my late twenties when my grandparents died, and I barely noticed. I felt no connection to them whatsoever. I am glad my mother is very warm and involved with DC. Even though it is not easy, because she lives very far away! My father, on the other hand, is his parents' son. He has no interest in DC, and I wouldn't expect DC to want to hang out with him years down the road. Or be heartbroken at his funeral. This man chose to exist in some parallel universe despite being an adult who is fully capable of making a different choice and not following in his parents steps. [/quote]

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