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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MIL lives two hours away. My DH's sister and her kids live in the next town from my MIL.
Whenever we visit, she arranges for the cousins to also be there. They are much older than my kids (older teens versus elementary schoolers) and naturally just take up more attention. She also sees them all the time. Occasionally I'd like my kids to visit with their grandmother and have special outings that don't also include the teenagers, but I don't know how to convey this diplomatically. It feels like my kids get short shrift a bit.
DH is doesn't care one way or the other. I've never said anything but I'm wondering if I could ever tactfully bring it up. [/quote]

The older cousins take up more attention?  Your kids may be younger now but when they are grown, age will be irrelevant but they will have a good relationship with their cousins and this is a good thing.

Frankly. The only person who sounds unhappy is you [/quote]

This can happens when cousins actually spend time together not watching their cousins from the sidelines — especially if they don’t want to be there. Not sure whether OPs like watching their cousins play sports all the time.[/quote]

We have no way of knowing whether OP's kids like watching their cousins play because OP has dropped off the face of the earth. I can see it going either way -- just being win the general presence of the older cousins will be enough for some kids, while it will be boring beyond measure for others. [/quote]

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