to be shocked by how much childcare some grandparents do?

[Undercovamutha]

I know a number of grandparents of kids from the local school, who look after their grandchildren from 7/8am - 6/7pm EVERY weekday whilst the kids parents are at work - (not only just outside school hours but also pre-school siblings), and then often look after them on the weekend so the parents can go shopping/have a 'well-earned' night out/have a sunday lie-in! Often these same grandparents also comment on the fact that they do the grandkids washing, help them with homework, take them to parties in the evening etc etc.
I just can't believe that these parents, IMHO, can take the piss so much, or how the grandparents let them get away with it.
AIBU? Is it in fact a lovely 'gift' for the grandparents to spend so much time with their grandchildren?
It could be I'm just jealous!

beautiful pictures.aww yes they look alike.

sorry about gareth and matthew.losing children is so traumatic

yes it is - glad you thought they were alike - I think thats why my grandson is so special xx

it is the beautiful vibrant eyes-both of them

yes it is - although my DS1's eyes make me sad on that picture - we had, what seemed a lifetime of sadness, we are getting there - wherever the hell 'there is' xxx

perhaps the grandprents want to, perhaps they get paid?

I am jealous though. You (OP) must know a lot of people with very old parents, presumably retired?

oh - sorry, darn it - this is what I get for not reading all the way through. That looks like a really crass barge in by me. Didn't mean to crash in like that ShabbaPF.

No worries love.

the dds' gps all live miles away-closest is my mum at a 3 hr drive

it's wrong to take the piss but am sure there is a balance

I don't think my dds see their grandparents often enough at all but it's hard to make such long journeys frequently (dh's mum lives a 6-hour drive away-we've only been up there twice this year)

am I jealous? you betcha

would actually quite like the occasional night out with dh and haven't really discovered a local source of baby-sitting yet

Shabbapinkfrog - really sorry to hear about your boys...I expect young L is a great comfort to you, also your musical 12 YO! You sound like a super grandma. Lovely pics, and yes, they do look alike! xx

Bumping this

But why are you bumping this? It's from 6 years ago and could bring up painful memories at Christmas time for the poster who was talking about her losses. If you really feel there is anything that hasn't already been said on mumsnet about grandparent childcare then start your own thread.

pmsl WHY???

this is a ZOMBIE that has decomposed into stew ffs!

bumping why, in the name of all that is Holy.........why?

Oh is this an old thread? Why would it be bumped?

Oh well.

Happy Christmas, one and all

although it is pretty strange to bump an ancient thread ((??)), the question is probably still as relevant now as it was then.

SIX YEARS AGO FFS?

I feel sullied. Right I'm going to ask for my post to be removed.

sullied?? WTF?? whats the big deal here, maybe the person who bumped it was from the original thread and wondered what if any the outcome was?

Oh FFS do you have to put after everything nowadays?

I asked for the message to be withdrawn because I didn't especially want to be sharing details of mine on a 5 year old thread where someone has just written "Bump" for no discernable reason.

OK. For "sullied" read "faintly silly". There, will that do?

Happy Christmas.

I don't know anyone whose parents look after their kids that much (5 days a week and then again for shopping/sleepovers at weekends). I know plenty where grandparents have the kids 2 days a week and babysit sometimes.

Oops- didn't read the 'bumping' posts!!