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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was the funniest thing I've ever read.

I've had chocolate shipped from where I live (another COUNTRY) and while it's nice treat (and talk about overseas shipping) I can't imagine being as pissed off as the OP.

[b]And she just watched the kids while you went away.

And seriously, OP...grow the F up.[/b][/quote]

This.  [b]The woman just babysat for you for free. [/b] Consider it payment in kind, OP.[/quote]

This is stupid. It was a kindness to schedule the grandparents weekend with the children. It’s so annoying how some people assume everyone is begging for free babysitting. Guess what? It’s a ton more work to get the house ready for a MIl/FIL visit. I would MUCH rather schedule a sleepover with one of my kids friends or even hire a college aged babysitter to watch them. The grandparents are always asking for more time with the grandkids so this was probably a way to say yes to the request. At least that’s how it would be in my family.

There must be a lot of entitled and delusional grandparents on this board.

I can’t imagine opening someone else’s birthday present, let alone thinking spending time with your grandchildren means you can do whatever you want and all boundaries are temporarily suspended. Nobody needs or wants babysitting that much. (I sure don’t.) And to pretend that it’s a quid pro quo when it’s actually going out of my way to say yes to the grandparents’ request is just gross.

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[b]I get so tired of hearing it was kind of the parents to allow grandparents to babysit[/b].   :twisted: [/quote]

Okay, then stop BEGGING me to let you babysit every time I see you!

If I don’t need or want childcare, how is it not a kindness to arrange for you to babysit???[/quote]

+1. I realize this dynamic isn’t true for everyone but what’s the deal with grandparents who beg to watch the kids and then act like martyrs when they do? We host my MIL annually and, every time, she would harass DH and I about going out to dinner so she could watch the kids. We’d come back and she’d make jokes about how we owe her or have to start paying her and complain about how exhausting it was. After the second or third time it happened I stopped agreeing to let her watch them. Now she thinks we are helicopter parents who don’t trust her to watch the kids and complains about that. I don’t get it! [/quote]

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