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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We took our two young kids to visit their grandparents for a week. For various reasons, I was under the impression that my in-laws were prepared for us and wanted to do stuff with the kids. The reality was that they had done very little baby-proofing and tired of the children quickly. The trip was exhausting for me because I was doing all the childcare I normally do, but in someone else’s house without the kid resources I normally have available. And yeah, my husband helped, but I think it was different for him because it was his family and his childhood home.  Is this pretty much how it goes for everyone when doing these kinds of family trips? What strategies do you have to make these trips more tolerable? There’s talk of us going back around the holidays and I’m dreading it already.[/quote]

Same experience, it sucks, it is such a slog. To add to the challenge, [b]my inlaws have the emotional maturity of toddlers and actually do things like snatch candy away from their preschool-aged grandchildren and run off to eat it while laughing.[/b] They throw temper tantrums when they can't get their way by feeding my children food they are allergic to. Of course they also absolutely refuse to pitch in and help do anything at all. The most babysitting my MIL ever did was sitting by the club's pool with a baby in full view of her adoring public for 20 minutes while her son took a swim. She actually had a little bell she rang when she was done basking in the adoration of her peers, for my DH to get out of the pool and take over caring for the baby. LOOOOOL.

So we put them in time out, in other words we never visit. Both sides are like this, so I guess you could say, we look forward to being the grandparents we never had for our kids when/if they decide to have children.[/quote]

This is my FIL. I just don't get it at all. He's nearly 70 years old and still acting like a child. It's not cute.[/quote]

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