Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/from-a-parents-perspective-spoiling-grandparents/5011911/
- Situation -"There are days I feel like cheering when the big bad wolf makes a meal of grandma. Sometimes, I consider inviting him over. I shudder when I take my three year old over to visit her grandparents. They pay absolutely no attention to anything I say, contradict me in front of my daughter, and nearly stumble over each other offering her piles of cookies, candy bars, and gallons of soda pop. We try to limit our daughter's intake of junk foods, but they act like I am some kind of ogre for even suggesting such a thing. My daughter adores her grandparents, but I dread even the thought of a visit. How can I get them to cooperate with me?"
- Solution -
"Readers, please raise your hands if you have ever had this type of problem." Look at the sea of arms waving in the air.
The problem you describe is more accurately not about your daughter and her grandparents. It is about you and your parents or in-laws. As adults, we get jobs, set up households, and start families of our own - but to our parents, now aka grandparents, we are still "the kids." In their eyes, ...