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When your adult child expects unlimited grandparent babysitting

My daughter keeps asking me to babysit my grandkids every weekend so she can go out and I love them but I had plans for retirement that did not include full-time childcare.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Generosity without boundaries becomes resentment when obligation masquerades as love and service becomes servitude.

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