SC>> I know, but you do what you have to do. Although I would take my
 SC>> grandkids in in a heartbeat if the need be, it would really be
 SC>> tough getting used to it. Of course they already know that I have
 SC>> rules in my house that differ with the rules at theirs. Some of
 SC>> mine are more strict and others they get a break. :-)

 DC> I'm talking about the fact that they had already raised kids and
 DC> are near or at retirement age.

That is true. The one thing that I think is great though is that both parents
have to pay child support to the grandparents here. They don't get away with
just dumping the kids.


 DC>> I found this out after my divorce:  My ex tried to get my parents
 DC>> to raise my daughter for a year while she went away to school.
 DC>> She didn't even consider that her parents lived virtually around
 DC>> the corner from us.

 SC>> Maybe she trusted your parents more than her own to take care of
 SC>> your daughter. Wouldn't that also have given you more time to
 SC>> spend with your daughter?

 DC> Not at all, as my parents where in another part of the state.

But you were still more free to see them than when she played her games with
you while they were living with her.

Sharon

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