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[quote=Anonymous]That’s very generous.  I would love that but both sides don’t live close to us.

My in laws babysit my SILs kids two weekdays a week and have for 9 years plus a few long weekends during the year and whenever they have an emergency.  The other side grandparents babysat two other days per week for my SIL.  So they only had one day of expenses.  My in-laws gave my SIL and BIL 4 months notice they were done with the two weekdays and won’t do that anymore, but can do emergencies and still the occasional night out.  They had skipped trips and travels with friends to do this babysitting. Whenever they visited us they had to leave to do the babysitting.  It was nuts.  They are getting older and gave them years of free care.  Anyway my SIL was so upset!  “How can they do this?” Etc.

She had free care for 9 years! Luckily my DH told her to be grateful and that we never got that and had to pay for it ourselves!

It’s good to set boundaries and very nice of you!

My mom still works and unfortunately I wouldn’t feel comfortable with her watching our kids alone.  She asks to watch them and was so happy when I asked if she could watch them one night. She lives a four hour drive away so she came for longer but that one night, man was it awful!  She picked them up from school and I was getting texts from other parents about her yelling at them.  Then they came home and went to the neighbors house and she let them go for hours and didn’t ask the neighbors!  The neighbors texted me to come and get them and said it was odd I hadn’t texted a heads up first (which is what we usually do) so I had to apologize for my mom. 
One of my children also said she wouldn’t read a story to them at bedtime and just threw a book at them and said “read it yourself.”.  So yeah, will never ever do that again.

So your kids are lucky.  They should be grateful for the time but also that they have parents who care and will take care of the grandkids!    [/quote]

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