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[quote=Anonymous]So one of the aspects of grandparents who both want to babysit the kids AND are invited back to watch the kids is that they are generally competent, interested in the kids, aware of what’s age appropriate, and not bringing along a host of boomer mental health and poor parenting problems. They aren’t creating safety hazards because they think if it wasn’t an issue when they were raising kids they aren’t bothering now …seatbelts, unsupervised preschoolers, etc. They aren’t pretending to help out while expecting to be hosted. They aren’t imposing their will by rearranging everything in the house or providing a constant verbal monologue of everything that should be done differently. They’ve left their anxiety, shopping addiction, self absorption and personality disorders at home rather than dump them in your living room.

It isn’t just that people who luck out with good grandparents want free babysitting. It’s that the grandparents aren’t nutty enough to not want to leave the kids alone with them. [/quote]

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