Reply #41: No innuendo [View All]

[never_get_over_it]

I genuinely meant that I was sorry that for whatever reasons you only saw your grandparents four times after you moved away....

My statement about extended families was in response to your statement

"But then again, I'm one of those parents who think kids these days don't spend enough time being raised by their parents but instead have a succession of minders-day care, baby sitters, school, after school activities-INSTEAD of the parent doing the job they took on-that of Raising their OWN child."

Seemed to me that you were saying that parents who let their children fly alone to visit extended familise was some how abdicating the job they took on of raising their own children. I think they are enhancing the child rearing by including the extended family.

It takes a village you know....