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Grandma retires: ‘I no longer want to babysit my daughter’s children’

‘My husband and I had children at a young age. I was eighteen when my daughter was born and three years later my son came,” the grandmother writes on Reddit. ‘My daughter had her first child herself when she was sixteen. Although she moved out and got married, my husband and I were very much involved in caring for her child,” the woman explains.

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“She was young, still in school and eventually became a single mother. Later, she got into a new relationship, but both her husband and she went into absurd work, leaving my husband and I practically raising our third child – our grandchild. We took him to school, looked after him and he lived with us for a month during the summer holidays. We enjoyed doing it and have become very close to him.’

Moving away

Her grandson is now eighteen. “He’s going to college now and my husband is retired. Our plan has been to move for years and we want to do that now, now that my husband has stopped working. There is only one problem: my daughter had another child two years ago and is now pregnant with her third. And she thinks we shouldn’t move, because she should be able to count on us to take care of her children.’

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hellish job

She doesn’t agree with her daughter at all. “I’d like to be a grandmother who sees and spoils her grandchildren regularly, but I’m not the one raising them. But when I said that, my daughter got angry. “That’s what grandmas do,” she said. And my comment that I’m retiring just like her father, but then in terms of pasting, is downright ridiculous. It sounded like caring for my first grandson felt like a chore at the time, she says.’

Gift

While the woman wonders who the bogeyman in all is, she gets support from many readers on Reddit. “Your daughter shouldn’t have children if she wants others to raise them,” says one.

Others say that the grandmother has the right to a life of her own and that her daughter should grow up. “Everyone is responsible for raising their own children. Any help you can get, from anyone, is a gift and absolutely not a requirement.’

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