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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a 7 year old senses this much favoritism it's probably because she's sensing OP's frustration with her mother.  It didn't happen organically.  [/quote]

Simply not true. By that age it was easy to tell my grandparent preferred my brother. He was younger and the only male grandchild in the family. It baffles me as an adult how my parents just let it happen and didn’t say anything or acknowledge what was happening.

With my own children it is also blatantly obvious but my older child pulls no punches and outright calls her grandparents (my ILs) out when they get like this, bragging endlessly about one of her cousins while not acknowledging her in any way. I’d guess she was about 8 the first time she piped up when they were raving about how athletic her cousin is and told her it was fine she wasn’t because she was a girl. A girl who runs 5ks, does swim team, plays softball, etc. So just patently untrue statements from the grandparents.[/quote]

OP here… I secretly would love for DC to call them out on it. I truly wonder how they’d respond. [/quote]

Yikes.  I cannot believe you wrote that let alone secretly dream it.  This one statement proves that you are the problem...that you want a 7-year-old to initiate a fight with the grandparent?  You are completely unstable and should not be a parent.  Sheesh.[/quote]

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