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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those of you with such “out of touch” grandparents sound miserable to be around.  I may send my grandkids parents a huge gift tomorrow for appreciating what I do for them and allowing me to also live my life.  [/quote]

+1000

My sense is that there are a lot of working women on this thread who are frustrated because they expected their mothers to be their children's babysitters.  [/quote]

This! Grandparents should be able to live their lives too and it does not need to revolve around grandchildren as the main focus.  Geeesh![/quote]

This was the situation with my mom/grandma.  Boomer mom had me at 25 and thought my Greatest Generation grandma would babysit so she could work. Turns out my grandma, who still had kids under 18 at home herself, wasn't keen to the idea.  My mom, who did not have a high paying job, dropped out of the workforce when my younger brother was born and Never. Got. Over. It. Among other things.  But even I can see that while my grandma was a WONDERFUL grandmother to me and my siblings/cousins, she wasn't always the greatest MOM.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.[/quote]

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