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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents are always asking to help on our beach vacation and whine at me that I “do too much,” but the looks on their faces when I asked them to take DC to the beach (an easy 5 minute walk) so I could exercise produced some disbelief. “How can we help?” Irritates the hell out of me when its being asked in a whiny tone AS I’m doing dishes, cooking, watching DC — because when I ask directly its still a thing. [/quote]

This is my ILs, too. They talk a big game about GRANDKIDS and just wanting to do things together and spoil them rotten, but in reality they don’t want to play kid games (they want to do complicated puzzles the kids musn’t touch), they want to go to the beach only at the height of the day when the sun is too much for little bodies and would be during nap time, and somehow drift away after every meal, leaving DH and I to clean up—even the meals that we also cooked.

My favorite is that they constantly yap how unfair it is that their friends Jane and Bob “are lucky enough to live close to their grandkids so they get to babysit all the time,” but when DH asked if they would watch the kids so that we could go out for one dinner alone, they said no because they “don’t understand the schedule.” We offered to write down the schedule (as in “feed them the pizza we order at 6, no need to do a bath because we will have already bathed them, help them brush their teeth at 7, make sure they go potty, read them two stories and say night night at 7:30”) and they still say no.

Like, all of that is fine. You are not obligated to play with or babysit your grandkids. But stop with the song and dance and the demand for vacation time together. [/quote]

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