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Favourtism among the grandkids

Dpmoff · 2012-10-28 18:49:06

It's happening in both of our family's, in my side it's the first grandchild, and in my partners family its the daughters grandchild. We're slowly getting around it with my moms side, my sil and brother have said to my mom that unless all the grandchildren are being treated the same then their childwon't have whatever my…

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Mrs.W_2 Posts: 584 Forumite

31 October 2012 at 1:25AM

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

My in-laws would always have their other grandchildren for sleepovers but have never had ours once.

There would be endless babysitting for them etc and it was always a real battle to get them to look after our kids. Lots of times it was met with refusal as racing the greyhounds would be more important or they would be "too busy".

Oh, oh!.. *holds hand up* My Mother does all the above, too. Except for her, it's whippets that are more important than my daughters.

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