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[quote=Anonymous]My parents are not very involved and like other PPs I have been shocked, disappointed and depressed over their lack of connection to my kids, who were their first grandparents. They nagged us to have kids for years, and then when we did they made a cameo and basically disappeared. They live 90 miles away. I wasn't expecting childcare or anything like that, but I was expecting us coordinating visits together (us to them and them to us). My father seemed very interested in my kids but he had a very serious disability that limited his mobility so most of his interactions involved talking on the phone (he never had a smart phone so no FaceTime) and watching tv together, especially with my son. But he passed away a while ago, and my mother has had no interest in seeing us.At all. Yet she seems obsessed with my sister's kids, so it's not like she doesn't like little kids.

My MIL, despite living in a different country, was a great grandmother and very supportive. She's call, FaceTime, and mail letters every week. She went totally overboard with presents. When we would visit her in the summer she would take the kids for up to 2 weeks on a vacation so that my DH and I could go on our own trip together and I knew she would take great care of them. But then she came down with a sudden terminal illness and passed away several years ago. My FIL, from who my MIL was divorced, has zero interest in knowing our kids (his only grandchildren). He probably doesn't know their birthdays, how old they are, or even their full names. [/quote]

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