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[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]

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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]

My mom worked and my grandparents took us every thanksgiving, winter, spring break and long weekend.  They even came for 1/2 days.  We also spent a lot of tie during the summer with them.

My parents haven't babysat once.  My mom is retired and she'll help out her friends, watch her boyfriend's grandkids for weeks at a time and on the rare occasion I've had an emergency she says's she's too busy.  Its sad as my kids are young teens and have no interest in them for the once or twice a year lets go out to eat.  My grandparents paid for a lot of my college and graduate school.  My parents don't even get my kids birthday or holiday gifts.  On a rare occasion my parents might buy a book or two once or twice a year, but really bizarre books, nothing anyone would have interest in and some really inappropriate.

After the first few weeks, when my day care situation fell through, I realize my parents wouldn't help as I asked them to watch the baby for a few weeks a few days a week and my husband would flex until I got child care and they said no.  So, my mom got mad I quit but i had no other choice as its near impossible to get a  day care slot last minute and we couldn't afford a nanny.[/quote]

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