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post #1 of 16
5/11/05 at 11:33am
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How do you get your parents or in-laws to stay close to their grandkids, when they are far away?
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post #2 of 16
5/11/05 at 11:36am
My parents and inlaws are all close.

If they were far away I think I would make sure I had a webcam, website, and send pictures and letters/drawing and such so they would know what was going on int he girls lives.
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post #3 of 16
5/11/05 at 11:39am
You know this is really hard.

I have a great idea that I hope to use if my kids are far away.

Buy a tape recorder and give it to them for Christmas. Have the grandparents buy books and tape themselves reading and send the book to the child. They can read each night to the child. Say night time prayers with the child.

Make sure you have pictures of them up in the house. Acknowledge them

Can them and make the kids talk to them.

Try to visit.
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post #4 of 16
5/11/05 at 11:39am
my inlaws only live about an hour away but they aren't really that close to our kids... they don't stay in as close contact as i think that they should... it's usually us calling them and going to visit them...

i know they love their grandkids but in my opinion they don't show it the way they should...
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post #5 of 16
5/11/05 at 11:39am
Web site is a great idea I wish I could do that.
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post #6 of 16
5/11/05 at 11:41am
Jan you can do free webpages for the kids. I did one for each girl - really easy and nothing expansive - but its a great way to give little updates and pictures.
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post #7 of 16
5/11/05 at 11:45am
Ray mom lives in San Jose, so they always call us every other day. Raymond talks with his nana like 3 or 4 times a week. They also make arrangements to fly for a weekend every two months



My dad lives in Tuson which is about an hour and a half away. he always calls and visits too

my mom.. totally different story she lives here but sees it very differently.
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post #8 of 16
5/11/05 at 11:46am
Karen, how do u do a webpage. i would be interested in knowing so i can have one for Raymond.
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post #9 of 16
5/11/05 at 11:46am
Do they give instruction on how to do it?
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post #10 of 16
5/11/05 at 11:48am
The webpages through ayhoo are actually really simple, and they walk you through it

They give you the instrauctions on how to do it as well
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post #11 of 16
5/11/05 at 10:15pm
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You all have great ideas on keeping in touch. I send pictures, clippings from mewspaper if Alisha is in it. Funny thing is a talk to my mom every Sunday and she hardly ask to talk to Alisha ever. I so wish my parents were close to my daughter but I can not change them and do not plan too, so glad Grandma and Grandpa Lawless spoil her and love her so so much.
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post #12 of 16
5/11/05 at 10:48pm
My mom and my in laws are close, but my sister and her family are in California. We talk on the phone several times a day, and Emily talks to her Aunt Angie and cousin Andrew and I talk to Andrew. We have always done this, since Andrew was a little baby (he's now 6 years old), and we started Emily on the phone as a baby, too. We show our kids pictures and visit a couple of times a year, or more. Of course, DH works for Delta, so we fly free, which does help. With my mom being so sick last year, my sister and my nephew were here a lot, helping out and visiting, as we didn't think my mom would make it this long. So, that is what we do. It's the best we could come up with for our situation.
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post #13 of 16
5/11/05 at 11:12pm
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Sounds like a wonderful idea Tammy.
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post #14 of 16
5/12/05 at 10:14am
We talk on the phone a lot. We send them pictures of him and they send us pictures of what's going on with them. We let him "talk" on the phone. (Mostly he just listens and they talk.) He loves to talk to my mom's answering machine. We show him pictures of trips we took to their house so he remembers things there.
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post #15 of 16
5/15/05 at 10:59pm
We send e-cards, regular cards, gifts, e-mails, home movies, pics, phone calls, etc. To bad it's all one way. We do all that and they do nothing in return.
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post #16 of 16
5/17/05 at 6:09pm
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Great things Dina and Lenora, sorry it is one way only Lenora, but you are doing the right thing.
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