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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't want to need my parents help raising my children, but I think it's funny that they got a ton of help from their parents raising us..... We are talking vacations together. Meals several times a week. Grandparents coming to all school functions taking us to school,  picking us up from school..... But my parents who are retired or working part-time struggle to even plan a holiday nowadays. Yet they want us to all come to them. Sorry Jan, I'm not planning Christmas at your house if you don't want to take the initiative. [/quote]
once again, you need to look at the differences in women's lives between the two generation.

Do millennials not understand context?  Hilarious.  So much naval gazing.

-signed a gen xer[/quote]

My parents did not go to college and both had jobs that barely made ends meet... Do I get why they leaned heavily on their parents but they didn't give us a dime for college or for a car or anything?...... So now that they've retired early because they were able to use the money they inherited from their own parents, they still are refusing to do anything. It seems like our grandparents raised us..... And our parents relied heavily on our grandparents labor and then are now enjoying their inheritance after our grandparents have passed..... So much so that we will once again get zero when our own parents die. [/quote]
I'll repeat:

Your grandmother more than likely did not have to juggle working full time and taking care of kids, on her own, because let's face it, the men in that generation weren't doing much housechores or childcare.

Your mother (because more than likely, when you say "parents", you really mean "mother") worked out of the home to try to provide for you, and your grandmother had the time to take care of you, the grandchild.

You know what it's like to work full time out of the home, and take care of kids. It's hard. Your mother is tired. She wants to enjoy her life because she was probably too busy raising you and working to enjoy her life. But, you begrudge her that.

Will you not get your parents estate when they pass? The cycle will continue.  Please post back when you are retired, and your kids want you to watch your grandkids.

#entitledmillennial[/quote]

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