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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's good when your parents live near enough to be free daycare AND your other siblings do not live nearby. [b]But I know of situations where two or more siblings and their parents live in the same city, but the parents provide much more childcare and chauffeuring for one sibling than the other(s). [/b]

I don't have my parents around to pick up the slack, but I'm not sure how I would feel if mom picked up my Larla from school two days a week while picking up my sibling's kid five days a week. I'd love the help but the blatant favoritism would constantly wear on me.

The grass is always greener.[/quote]

This is my siblings and parents. I live far away but my siblings all live close, and my parents have always given the sibling who started having kids first way for attention and help than the others. And the situation is self-reinforcing because my other siblings stopped asking for much since my parents were always busy with the other family, and then resentment grew around it so people didn’t enjoy each other’s company as much due to the feeling of things being unequal. Then the sibling who gets more help caught wind of the resentment and was defensive about it. And now they don’t all get along and there is constant drama.

I am VERY glad to live far away and not get the help and for my kids to have a more distant relationship with them all. Maybe if my family wasn’t nuts, but that’s not what I’m working with here.[/quote]

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