How much childcare do grandparents do?

My mum has my daughter once or twice a month to give me a break so I can go to the cinema or catch up with friends.
My step dad has her once a week while I have a driving lesson as he is retired.

My grandparents are dead but my parents do lots of childcare for me as do my in laws.

My mum and dad have DS2 once a week all day and pick DS1 up from school once a week, they also do ad hoc days when I ask. They have both DS's overnight a few times a year and will babysit in the evenings once a month or so.

My MIL also does one day a week childcare for DS2 and her and FIL will do overnights as much as we would let them!

I appreciate I am very fortunate to have this and try my very best to not take any childcare for granted but without their help I would really struggle with working.

My DS's have a wonderful relationship with their grandparents as I did with mine when I was younger.

My grandparents = 0 either elderly/poor/health/deceased

My parents/PILs = 0

And echo what Arf said in regards to there really not being a 'norm'. I know grandparents who are frail and do loads of childcare and then mine who just dont really want to know despite declaring to friends/family/strangers how involved they are

My parents are dead so they (obviously) don't do any childcare. My ILs are always willing to have the DCs for an hour here or there but my FIL was quite clear that he didn't want to do regular childcare and I think that's fine. I want my DCs to have a lovely time with their GPs not to be having to do homework, arrange tea, take to activities etc

My nana is 87 and her vision isnt great so i dont ask her to babysit

My mum has my DCs for a few hours on a saturday if i have to work or overnight once every few months if i want to go out. Exps mum has Dc every other wednesday afternoon.

Actual grandparents? None. They are too far away or too frail?

My daughter's grandparents? Next to none. They have not offered. One comes and stays when I travel for work to help my husband out but we don't get any evenings or weekends "off".

My grandparents are all dead except one, and she is in her nineties.

My parents on the other hand do lots - childcare for different grandchildren four days a week, plus ad hoc babysitting on evenings and weekends. I know we're in a lucky minority.

As a previous poster has said, unless your grandparents were young when they had your parents, your parents were young when they had you, and you were young when you had your children, they are unlikely to be young, fit and energetic enough to do much in the way of childcare.

My own GPs are long gone.

My MIL and my Dad have both died. They were in poor health for many years and were sadly not able to be the full on grand parents they would have liked to be.

My mum has health issues. She makes an effort and is great with making dolls clothes etc. My ds has stayed overnight twice. One of these nights was when I was having dd. My ds is nearly 8. My mum has never babysat so we can have an evening out. She made it very clear when I was expecting ds that she would be a Nan not a child minder.

I do recall my FIL reading a story to ds once at bedtime. He also sorted the dc's breakfast one morning over the Xmas break so that DH and I could have a lie in. To be fair, FIL is much better with older gc.

Both Mum and FIL are in their mid 70s.

So anymore details about your situation OP?

None for work, every other Friday just for fun.

DD's grandparents have her overnight maybe once every couple of months. One set will very occasionally pick her up from nursery but apart from that, very little.

I'm guessing you mean my parents, so DS' grandparents? If yes, then they have him to stay odd weekends (maybe 4-5 a year), usually a week in the summer, a couple of nights most half terms and then the odd school pick up if I ask. We're too far apart for them to do this regularly and it requires an overnight stay here for them so they maybe do it once or twice a (half) term. ExDP is estranged from both his parents so they do none. My DH's parents are either abroad or ill do also do none for us or DH's siblings.

If you meant my actual grandparents then they do none as they're either sadly no longer of this world or in their 90s

Why so interested in someone else's childcare arrangements? Are they affecting you?

All my grandparents are dead. My child's grandparents do very little as they live about 5 hours away.

As above, none because they are dead. My children's grandparents? Also (virtually) none because they all live over 200 miles from us.

My actual grandparents, or my parents? In both cases its zero as my grandparents are long dead, and neither of ds's grandparents ever have him , it works out the same