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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are your kids, not mine.  I never even asked, let alone expected, my parents or siblings to babysit or free childcare.  My sister, 12 years older than me has a 29-yr old daughter who thinks I should help her with free childcare.  What the hell is wrong woth this generation?  Take cate of upur own kids![/quote]

My MIL often wanted to babysit, but I chose to be a SAHM over the free babysitting.
Then my SIL had kids and takes complete advantage of her. It's sad.

When we had weddings to go to. We would  drop the baby off when we were driving there, so for 6 pm wedding we would drop them off at 530 pm and pick them up at midnight. My SIL would drop hers off at 12 noon so she can get ready in peace ( where is hubby???) and then picked up them up the next day after lunch. Ended up longer than 24 hours.

I want to be the one raising my own kids. 
What surprises me is that the one poster works all week,then drops her kids off at her parents all weekend. The problem I have with that is it is sad that she doesn't want to be with the kids more. Just because a parent offers to babysit doesn't mean you have to take advantage of every second that they are willing to watch the kids.
I actually WANT my kids home with me all weekend. My MIL offers but I would miss them too much. [/quote]
Good Lord
Why are folks harping on this mom?
Didn't the lady say the family was close...that the see each other over the weekend...
she doesn't drops her kids off at grandparents and jet off to vegas and milan!!
I am sooooo over these martyr mommies who judge every other mommy by the things they do for their family and lob the ever so helpful " I love my kids too much..." as if someone doing it differently loves their kid less.
Guess what -- they do it differently because they have DIFFERENT KIDS, DIFFERENT FAMILIES, DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES...get OVER IT![/quote]

She's envious of my situation, but it's veiled as sorrow for my (happy) kid. She would probably really hate one of my best friends whose mom (late 50s) retired recently because she wanted to watch her grandson FT while my friend works. My mom was known as Super Grandma until her mom pulled the trump card with that.lol Her family is really close too. She has something like 20 first cousins and they have a monthly outing together. All of their kids are really close too, like siblings. [/quote]

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