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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have three small kids, the rule should be that any adult in the house for more than 3 days is either helping or leaving (or over 80-- they get a pass).  You already have three people to care for. Yes you can include them in your grocery runs, but they need to contribute to childcare, cleaning, cooking.  You aren't the caterer.  [/quote]
WTF??[/quote]

I sort of agree.  Able bodied guests staying beyond a day or two are usually willing to pitch in and help out (at least when I've been in that situation).  I'm not talking about doing deep cleaning in the bathrooms but loading/unloading the dishwasher, clearing the table, etc.

This idea that hosts should do ALL of the work, provide all the food/entertainment while their multi day, able bodied guests all sit back and not offer to lift a finger is foreign to me.  Not the way I was raised..[/quote]
While that is generally the way things happen, the way pp put it was entitled and snotty.
I see my parents and in laws as family. Do they generally clean up after tbemsves, cook a meal here and there or watch the kids, yes.
But am I waiting with baited breath to jump in the chance to give them a duty to earn their keep ?
Were they doing that when they fed and clothed us when we were kids?[/quote]

Don't confuse raising your own children with older, healthy parents or in laws vacationing in your house.
Maybe the more apropos question is how do you (or OP) intend to treat your own kids once they are adults, married, work full time, and have a young family?
Are you going to sit back and say "oh remember when I fed and clothed you for 18 years, well...."
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