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[quote=Anonymous]My parents are really involved with my kids. They're the only grandkids. My parents love to show up for everything. Field day needs a volunteer? Swim meet needs a timer? They're there. Soccer games, swim meets, kindergarten graduation, Karate belt ceremony, class end of the year party where "family is invited"- they love to come. They're active, helpful, and not in the way. They're very excited about my kids' academic progress and they tutor them. They read the same books that my oldest is reading at school so they can discuss together. Preschool lets my dad come in once a week to read to the kids.

I didn't have any of that growing up and I was an only child, so was kind of lonely. It's been a very welcome surprise how much my parents wanted to be involved and present. Enough so that we felt we had enough bandwidth to have a 4th kid.

I have a pretty big social life though and don't think my parents are taking too many seats. Often it's just one of them and one of us (either dh or me) since we have 4 kids and often have multiple events at the same time. [/quote]

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