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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My cousins LOVE to bring extremely complicated board games over for holidays for the family to play. My kids are young and are the only kids in the family. So every year they get out some new game, the kids want to play, and they tell them to go amuse themselves because "this is a grownup game" and the kids get upset. Usually I end up playing some kids' game with them to keep them happy and I get remarks about not socializing with the extended family. Petty vent I know. I feel like they all still think of themselves as the "kids" of the family and these small people are just annoyances to be kept quiet.[/quote]

Some of the most annoying and clueless adults I know are those that come over and then play a game or color with their children instead of being capable of adult conversation, not to mention encouraging their children to learn to entertain themselves for a short time. [/quote]

Um, it's the HOLIDAYS. No the kids shouldn't be excluded b/c some man or woman-child needs to have "adult time."[/quote]

Wow. Grow up. Your kids aren’t the center of anyone’s universe except yours. Yes, even on the HOLIDAYS.[/quote]

+1. I enjoy seeing your kids when they are at their best, but if skipping a nap, eating next to nothing or all junk, staying up past bedtime or cramming on the floor of someone’s guest bedroom is going to put them at their worst, know that I’d rather enjoy quiet adult time then be forced to endure meltdowns. And I say this as a parent. No one wants to see your kids that much. It’s not that deep. I’d rather see my adult cousins than their kids. [/quote]

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