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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do kids need to see grandparents on their birthdays in a restaurant? Sitting in restaurants is for adults. Normal grandparents want to see their own kids and their spouses too, not just the grandkids, and pick a place that suits families with young kids. The whole premise of this event, having to see grandkids without their parents in a restaurant is weird. [/quote]

What are you talking about? Should they meet at the trampoline park?  These kids really old enough to sit at a restaurant, color on the menu and see their grandparents for about an hour. And the mother, a parent, would be there. Goes to show that the MIL thinks highly of her DIL that she'd like to see her too if her son can't make it. Isn't that what the breeders are so worried about that they are just an incubator? [/quote]

Calm down, boomer. I guess you've never seen anything except a trampoline park and an adult restaurant in your life. The MIL specifically didn't care if she saw DIL or her own son on her birthday, she wanted grandkids there to stare at her in awe. I know it's difficult for you to consider anyone else than yourself, but we have all moved on. And if you cannot come up with anything, you sit in the trampoline park and color for an hour! [/quote]

lol I have young kids. You make zero sense so no use in responding to some bizarre rant suggesting I've never seen anything but restaurants and trampoline parks? What?[/quote]

So why are you responding? You sure don't sound as someone who has young kids or raised any. It was you who suggested a trampoline park, as if it's the only option left. So you do you. [/quote]

Why are you responding only to make no sense? Spare us the illiteracy. My in-laws and parents are elderly so meeting for meals is the obvious solution. Funny how we see lots of extended families doing the same thing. You don’t sound like a parent or even someone who has inlaws.[/quote]

Interestingly I've never met my parents or ILs for meals in restaurants when my kids were little. What is obvious to you is not obvious to many others. It's much easier and interesting to do fun activities together outside restaurants than force little kids to "draw for an hour" in a cubicle. But then I do hikes for my own birthdays with everyone invited, so who am I to say :)[/quote]

Op has elementary school kids they aren’t babies or toddlers.[/quote]

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