Dear Queenie,
My parents are always ready to babysit for their next-door neighbors, but they won’t even take our kids – their grandchildren – for an afternoon. They always say they are too busy, and once they said our children are too much for them to handle.
Queenie, we think family should be more important than neighbors. And what do we tell our kids when they ask to visit their grandparents?—Offended
Dear Offended,
Do you ever take your children to visit their grandparents with you, when you are there to look after – and control – the children? Perhaps your parents meant what they said: that without you present your children are too rambunctious for them to control.
