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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. As I said earlier, it was something that crossed my mind.

I absolutely want to be part of my grandkids' lives deeply, but I don't want to be the full-time care for 3-5 years, and part-time after that. But if my kids NEED me to be that care for GC's then I will help however I can.

Just not my hoped-for situation.

That may sound heartless and it really is putting the cart before the horse, as my OP opened. Don't we all put ourselves in imagined scenarios from time to time and wonder how we'd feel?[/quote]

So don't. Just talk to your school-aged children at this point in their lives and point this all out to them. I'm sure they'll think it's a very timely and relevant conversation to have at this stage in everyone's lives. In fact, I think I'll talk to my 5-year-old about this exact thing tonight. You've reminded me that I'm probably too late already. She's probably made all of these assumptions already about how involved I'll be. I better nip that in the bud now...[/quote]

LOL, my 5 year old was definitely setting expectations for how involved I'd be.  He told me that he wanted me to be his college roommate and that afterwards we'd live together in a big house with a bunch of German Shepherd Dogs, a monitor lizard, and some ferrets but no babies to compete for my attention.

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