Anonymous
Post 02/15/2015 03:24     Subject: If you spent the summer with your grandparents, how often did your parents visit?
Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine not spending the summer with my kids. I understand long visits with grandparents (maybe a week or two if the kids are older), but the entire summer???

I don't understand this at all if the grandparents are a short drive away.

Please explain this to me.


It's a great bonding experience for both. Kids get something from grandparents that they can't get from their parents.

My parents are 3hrs away. They are young (late 50s). We go visit, the kids hardly notice us. Grandparents live on the Chesapeake bay. They have a magical summer full of sailing, crabbing, fishing, swimming, and cousins and friends. DH and I in turn also get a magical summer.
Anonymous
Post 02/13/2015 05:44     Subject: If you spent the summer with your grandparents, how often did your parents visit?
Spent 3-4 weeks with them. Parents did not visit.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2015 23:07     Subject: If you spent the summer with your grandparents, how often did your parents visit?
Anonymous wrote:I spent two weeks every summer at my grandparents' house near Pittsburgh. Sometimes I'd go with my sister (we are close in age) and other times, I'd go solo. Loved every minute of my vacations with them.

I talked to my mom on the phone maybe once a week. Never homesick.


Back to say that I kept this arrangement from age 5 - 15.

Sometimes, at the end of my stay, my mom would drive up to visit and we'd drive home together.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2015 23:06     Subject: If you spent the summer with your grandparents, how often did your parents visit?
I spent two weeks every summer at my grandparents' house near Pittsburgh. Sometimes I'd go with my sister (we are close in age) and other times, I'd go solo. Loved every minute of my vacations with them.

I talked to my mom on the phone maybe once a week. Never homesick.
Anonymous
Post 02/12/2015 22:21     Subject: If you spent the summer with your grandparents, how often did your parents visit?
I can't even imagine this. SIL's had that luxury, but we don't.

Anonymous
Post 02/12/2015 20:59     Subject: If you spent the summer with your grandparents, how often did your parents visit?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine not spending the summer with my kids. I understand long visits with grandparents (maybe a week or two if the kids are older), but the entire summer???

I don't understand this at all if the grandparents are a short drive away.

Please explain this to me.

My parents aren't a short drive away. They live in FL. My kids spent 2 weeks with them last year. This year they will spend 4 weeks with them and my parents will be driving them back labor day weekend. They will be 9 and 6yo.


How old are your parents?