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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand you can't force it, and I have a FIL who chooses not to engage with our kid with no physical inability to do so, but why do they bother to visit then? What exactly do they think is going to happen on a visit to a house with very young children who can't do museum visits and such. My ILs have the expectation that our 4 year old, whom they have no interest in reading to, watching a show with, anything, should be silent and leave them in complete peace while they read their books or play on their iPads. In our house. If she so much as asks one of us, not them as she has long stopped trying, to read, play or take her to the park, they sigh audibly and roll their eyes at the interruption.

Why visit? What purpose does it serve?[/quote]

They will have some interaction, just not the kind you envision.   The adult world is not there to entertain your children.  [/quote]

I'm pretty sure you've likely not had this situation.

The only interaction is negative with my ILs "shushing" our child if she makes a peep in our house. I don't expect anyone to entertain my child (I'm not OP) and have long accepted the lack of role my ILs play, but I don't think it is too much to ask that they treat her with even a modicum of decency I our own home. So they come to visit our house and then get irritated when our world does not cater to their desire to become one with our couches in utter silence. [/quote]

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