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I'll say maybe monthly... and they're 1/2 mile away. I'm not sure grandparents are a priority for the generation raising up kids today (20s -30s). It seems to be ALL about the kids... at the expense of anything/everything else.
They live from Michigan to Florida to Virginia to Illinois. I live in Illinois....grandchildren are all in college or college graduated. Don't see them as much now. Sad but true. Who wants to hang out with the old folks when there is so many other fun things to do and see.
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It varies. One adult child still lives with us so every day. Another is about 45 minutes away, we see her and the grandkids about 1-2 times a month. The 3rd is about 2-1/2 hours away, we see him, his wife and baby grandkid about every other month. We're actually planning to move to a place that's central to all of them, making us closer to one but farther from the other.
While we would love to see them more, you cannot move to be closer to younger family these days. It's just too likely that they will move away, changing jobs, or for other reasons. The average millennial today moves every 2 years, Gen X every 4 years. The average millennial changes jobs every 2.75 years, Gen X every 2 years 3 months.
One of my kids lives out of state. I see him once a year. One lives with us, and the other we see...every 2 or 3 months, but tend to see him and his family more often in the warmer weather.
One of the grandkids we see fairly often. I'll say 3 or 4 times a month. The others, less often.
Only 2 of my children are parents at this time. Only 1 daughter lives near me - 35 min away with 2 of my grandchildren - We get to see them every few weeks - like GDaughter is going to be in a pageant this weekend - my daughter texted me to tell me about it. - We went to 1 of her basketball games - (she is only 4) Daughter invites us to holidays if at her MIL house. We have a Beach House and two weeks ago we spent the weekend with them there. It was Spring Break for them.
All my other grandchildren live with their mom's and all in different states. One GD is in Austin with her mom and we get to see her at least once a year. She is our oldest grandchild and will be 14 at her next birthday.
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We live in the same town with 2 of our grandchildren and see them 2/3 times a week. We alternate Sunday night dinners with their family and pick them up from school two or theee times a week. They sleepover a couple of times a month. My son and his family live two hours away, and we see them monthly. We usually drive to their house and spend the day with them.
One daughter lives ten minutes away and the other forty-five minutes away, in inner Sydney. I do a school pick-up for each daughter once a week, have just returned from one. See them informally other times, last weekend a pub meal with one lot for a birthday, this weekend a dinner for Easter as they will all be away.
I am very glad they live in the same city, they both lived in London for five years and we dreaded them staying permanently. Twenty-two hour flights are difficult when you get old!
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