My MIL blatantly favours one of my daughters over the other and it infuriates me because it's just so dang obvious. It's not like she doesn't love the other, but she goes overboard with the affection and attention with the one kid.
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ILs live 20 mins from their grandsons so they see them a lot. But they still favor them. We are only 4 hours away and they haven't come to see her ALL summer, really since April when they stopped in town for three hours. FIL is retired and SMIL gets 8 weeks of vacation. No excuses in my book.
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I don't think my parents do. They think Olive is cute because she's the "baby" and they love chatting with Charlie. We'll see what happens when they get older though!
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My daughter is my mom's favorite, for sure. But, I'm definitely her favorite kid, so I guess that's why.
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DD is the only grandchild on both sides at the moment. But DH's parents pay more attention to BIL's dogs than to our daughter so that counts, I'm pretty sure!
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LO is the only grandchild on my side &one of three on DH'S. I think his parents favor my LO & our niece over our nephew but our nephew is actually the son of my DH'S childhood best friend whim they adopted around the 7th grade...but I feel that if they claim him as family they should treat him no different than the other kids.
I was the favorite on my mom's side & it really bothers me. No one pays any attention to my brother. My grandma still favors me over my LO which really makes me sad because I'm nothing special. I'm a grown adult, I don't need or want special attention. But DD is such a special little joy & should be treated as such (but I'm biased lol)
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My FIL does. His grandson lives a 10+ hour drive away and he's made the trip 4 or so times to see him since he was born 18 mo ago. He also drove to our house (3 hr trip) twice for day trips when the grandson (and his mom, my SIL) was visiting us for a week. Other than those two trips, he has come to see our LO twice, once two days before one of the other trips when grandson was here (I swear to God he only came that day when he was coming twice more the following week because my MIL would also be here the next day and he wanted to meet our LO before she did). He hasn't been here (or made any mention of seeing LO) in 2.5 months even though he's only 3 hrs away.
Honestly it's fine though because we don't really want to see him more anyways.
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It's easier for most people to connect with LO1 since he is talkative and easy to interact with. Most people like to admire and hold LO2 because he is the baby. I think both grandparents try to not show favoritism, but they probably do like LO1 more since they've seen him grow up for the last 3.5 years.
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My in-laws, definitely don't.
My Mom and step-dad have so many grandkids (10), that I'm sure they do, but we are rarely all together so I don't notice.
My Dad and step-mom DEFINITELY do- my middle sister's daughter is their favorite. I live about 30 minutes from my Dad and he has NEVER made an effort to come see my daughter (who is 18 months). I have come to the point where I don't care though. It's his loss. -
No grandbabies yet, but my ILs blatantly favor my SIL over DH & BIL. Drives me crazy. It's gotten better, thankfully.
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@Smurfette: Same here! Both my inlaws are now retired and about 30 minuets a way. They will travel 4hrs away to sils and see her kids but don't call or come around here.
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My parents only have Xander as a grandchild so far. But some of my in-laws seem to favor SIL's kids over ours. It might just be because they've been around longer, so they know them more? But it does seem like they put in more effort to see them than to see Xander.
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On my side, our daughter is the only grandchild, so no, but on my husbands side, its easy to see why they other cousins get more care. they live in the same city, and their parents are not as well off as us (not that we're well off).
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We only have one child and he is my in law's only grandchild after waiting many years, they are a little older. So he is treated like a prince. My parents have two other grandsons and are crazy about all three of them. My son and my mom seem to have sort of a special connection that even I am a little jealous of but she would never outright favor him, they just gaze lovingly at each other all the time!
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