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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the thread demonstrates, [b]some folks are bean counters [/b]who would feel like this situation is unfair, and some folks aren’t. You know your kids better than we do—do you think your son is a bean counter who would feel slighted by this situation?

I agree with those who say this is a big favor and could be harder than you think. My mom did watch our kid full time when she was a newborn, and it was harder for her than either of us anticipated. For second kid, there was still a strong desire to help, but we dropped to one day of grandma babysitting a week. I found the daycare to be a lot better than I had worried it would be. [/quote]

Plenty of posters have clearly described that it’s not about bean counting. It’s about putting in place a dynamic where a grandparent’s time and energy are so overwhelmingly monopolized by one grandchild- ie to the extent that it is their full time job- that the other grandchild and family end up becoming increasingly marginalized and distanced as a direct (if inadvertent) result. [/quote]

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