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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you are an immature brat. Buck up and be an adult. Take care of your own kids. Your parents sound low key, living their retirement. They obviously love you and your kids or they wouldn’t visit. At some point they may stop, given you think they are not “useful” to you. I’m sure your attitude reeks. [/quote]

I really hope you don’t treat your own grandchildren like this. No wonder so many kids drop out of school, do drugs and hey pregnant here. People literally don’t care about their families at all and have no sense of responsibility for their kids. I have no attitude at them, I’m just frustrated they treat my kids like zoo animals. My grandparents helped them out all the time. [/quote]

I’m not a grandparent. I’m a 49F with 2 kids 13 and 16. I have never judged either set of grandparents for their “usefulness”. You’re kidding yourself if you think they don’t sense your attitude. [/quote]

My point is that I hope you are more involved with the grandkids if you end up having any. I would not wish what my parents have done upon anyone else. [/quote]

You said they visit which is more than some people have. Appreciate the time they spend with you and maybe ask yourself why you expect them to help you raise your kids. Grow up and maybe ask yourself if there is anything you can do for them[/quote]

Appreciate how they don’t care about my grandkids. Everyone on this thread is awful. People in other countries actually care about their kids and grandkids. Americans apparently don’t.[/quote]

You really feel like an entitled brat, frankly. My guess is your sense of being wronged or shortchanged by your parents is really come a place of embarrassment. You are embarrassed that your parents are unengaged because you feel like or reflects poorly on you as their son's wife. Are you worried they think you came from poor stock?  Sounds like your parents are divorced based on your OP, so maybe you were already self conscious about that and how you are viewed in the eyes of your in-laws. [/quote]

Yes, They are divorced and I’m upset they are not engaged but try to pretend like they are great grandparents on social media. Literally the only thing they do is take pictures with them. They don’t ask about how the kids are doing in school or anything that actually matters. They just don’t care what happens to the grandkids at all. My own grandparents (their parents) asked about these things and we would even go to visit them for weeks at a time over the summer. These some of the most meaningful childhood memories I have. It just makes me very sad to know that my own kids won’t have anything like this with my parents. My grandparents even bought a 5 bedroom house to make sure there is plenty of room for the kids and grandkids to visit anytime they want. My parent on the other hand can even be bothered to live in a house where there is enough room to visit for a weekend or that is safe for the grandkids. They literally bought a one bedroom house and decorated it with a bunch of antique furniture that has lead paint on it. [/quote]

Your divorced parents live in the same 1 bedroom house?[/quote]

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