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How much should a grandmother help with her daughters 4 children under 9???
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 376731" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>In past generations it was not uncommon for a grandparent to live with her child and her child's family. My childhood bff, D, had the privilege/curse of having her Gma live with them most of her childhood. The Gma and Mom both worked very hard as housewives. Their home was a place no speck of dust DARED to enter. The housework was always a shared thing, just like getting the kids ready for school, or helping with homework. Unless one of them was ill, it would NOT have happened that Gma would have labored all day while Mom did nothing!!</p><p> </p><p>Your daughter may be thinking it is like when a mother in law came to live with the family the way it was done in past generations. She just hasn't grasped that when that happened the Gma (mother in law) didn't do all the chores. They worked together and when Gma needed a rest or couldn't do something the mother picked up the slack.</p><p> </p><p>Maybe she should read how it works in the Janet Evonovich books - the Stephanie Plum ones. She would get an idea of what a Gma really should be doing if she lives with her daughter or visits long term!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 376731, member: 1233"] In past generations it was not uncommon for a grandparent to live with her child and her child's family. My childhood bff, D, had the privilege/curse of having her Gma live with them most of her childhood. The Gma and Mom both worked very hard as housewives. Their home was a place no speck of dust DARED to enter. The housework was always a shared thing, just like getting the kids ready for school, or helping with homework. Unless one of them was ill, it would NOT have happened that Gma would have labored all day while Mom did nothing!! Your daughter may be thinking it is like when a mother in law came to live with the family the way it was done in past generations. She just hasn't grasped that when that happened the Gma (mother in law) didn't do all the chores. They worked together and when Gma needed a rest or couldn't do something the mother picked up the slack. Maybe she should read how it works in the Janet Evonovich books - the Stephanie Plum ones. She would get an idea of what a Gma really should be doing if she lives with her daughter or visits long term!!!! [/QUOTE]
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