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[quote=Anonymous]First of all, as I’m sure they taught you growing up, “my house, my rules”.  Since it is your house, you need to have a household rule that nobody discusses politics at all over dinner, when there are guests, under your roof period, however you want to structure the rule.

Then decide what you and your family want for dinner, hopefully including something they will eat.  “Great news!  I’ve heard that ______ makes a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner, so we’ll be picking the food up/having it delivered and that will give me more time to enjoy your company.”.  You can either get some non-traditional foods for the kids to enjoy, or maybe pop some frozen appetizers in your otherwise empty oven for everyone to enjoy and the kids could probably happily make a meal of it.  If you want to do something entirely different (ex. tacos instead of turkey), just give them advance notice.

Plan activities.  “Hey, since you’re here, we’d love to watch old family movies, put up the tree, have you teach the kids how to (do their favorite dance), etc.” or “How about we play a game (Apples to Apples is a good one), watch this new movie and put together a jigsaw, etc.”?

Use the grandkids.  We thought it would be fun to XYZ for a change and the kids are so excited.  They’ve really been looking forward to sharing this with you while you’re here.  Just pick things the kids actually will enjoy.[/quote]

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