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[quote=Anonymous]I am Gen X, my parents are Boomers.

My own parents lived near their own parents- I don’t think they felt they had much choice in the matter- and so yes my grandparents were involved in our lives. I wouldn’t necessarily say the gparents were “helping,” in that they weren’t driving me to activities or providing my after school child care or similar, but my sibs and I did sometimes sleep over at gparents’ house on weekends for fun, and my grandparents came to dinner at our house weekly, and we’d regularly go with a parent to gparents’ to do chores, etc). On reflection, I’d say my parents spent as much or more time helping their parents as their parents did helping them with us.

My parents encouraged my sibs and me to locate wherever met our professional and personal goals. That turned out not to be in the same state as them for any of us. So my parents have not been helpful in the raising of my kids or my sibs kids, but they have been loving and visit a few times a year. Nor do sibs and I helo our parents with their day to day lives, the way they did for their own parents.

I’d never call my parents selfish. And I hooe they wouldn’t call me selfish either! It’s just a different way of life. [/quote]

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