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[quote=Anonymous]When my parents came to help for several months, I increase the hours for my cleaning lady and call her every week. It really helped to outsource some work.

My dad and mom love to fold laundry while watching TV, dad loves to iron clothes while watching TV, mom loves to chop veggies, shell peas, snap beans etc. So they took care of a lot of small things that helped overall.  The best was that they would happily play with my older kids, read to them and even watch boring cartoons with them.  They would make sure that my kids were fed and all of this they did pretty much following the way they wanted to do.  I did not interfere. My kids were loved and fed by grandparents and I got a break.

If you want someone to help you the exact way you want things done then you have to outsource that and pay them.  With grandparents - learn to be flexible, understand that they are elderly and they are there to help in their own way and in their limited capacity. Mostly they are there to see the grandkids and cuddle them.  As long as they are not at a stage where you have to change their adult diapers - seriously, county your blessings.

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