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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do get a bit annoyed at my boomer parents, who are always on vacation, while I have small children at home, a demanding career, and cannot get enough sleep.[/quote]

That’s really bizarre.    You made choices to have children and keep a demanding job.  And you’re annoyed at retired parents who spent 30 or 40 years working jobs, taking care of children and are now taking vacations?

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+1. The sense of entitlement is beyond me. [/quote]

From our perspective, it is the grandparents who are entitled and making demands of us.[/quote]

What demands are they making of you? [/quote].

To have grandkids, to see the grandkids on holidays, to host them at our house, to FaceTime with them, to send them pictures and give them updates.  But they can’t lift a finger.  We just don’t have the time for that anymore.  It just creates more work for us.[/quote]

NP.  Hmm.  In my opinion, forming the grandparent-grandchild bond is for the child, not for you as a parent.  I would do the work so my child would experience this relationship with a generation of family members that frankly won’t be here forever.

Im a young Gen X.  I loved my grandparents dearly, but they lived several states away.  They were not involved in taking care of me in any way - my parents worked two jobs and when I was young, used daycare and hired a neighbor to watch me after school.  We drove to see my grandparents in the summers and on holidays, and I loved them for who they were, not what they did for me.[/quote]

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