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[quote=Anonymous]I would suggest a little bit of compromise on everyone's part.

How about start with every other week (the compromise between your once/month and their once/week) and go out to eat at 5pm with everyone.  Pick a moderate sit down restaurant.  You order for your son first to get his food out early and one of you (in our family, it is the one whose parents are not there) also orders early.  That person and the child eat first.  Then, after they eat, parent and child do homework.  The person not on homework duty has primary duty to entertain the grandparents, whether listening to them talk about golf or whatever.  Aim to be done with dinner by 6:30.  If the kids still has too much energy, stop at a playground on the way home and let him run around to 20 minutes.  Invite grandparents to come and sit on a park bench and watch little Johnny play.  Aim to be home 7:15 or so in time to have a bath and get to bed by 8:00.  For one night, you can make his lunch after he goes to bed.  Or if it is Friday night, then you don't have to make a lunch for him.

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