How often do you see your grandchildren?

I see the grandchildren who live in Sydney once a year for about 8 weeks. The 2 who live in Berkshire, I have not seen since April but usually see them about 4 or 5x a year for a few days at a time and the 2 who live in Wiltshire I saw a month ago and probably see 4 or 5 times a year as well. This is why I am selling up and moving south, downsizing and hoping to spend longer in Oz and the rest of the time near the English 'lot'. My DD's and SiL's lead such busy lives that travelling 'home' 500/12000 miles to see Mum is becoming an effort not to mention tedious and I, in turn, am fed up and exhausted with constantly travelling south in order to see them. hmm and hrrmph!

I saw mine more before they grew into teenagers. Now its about every 6 eeeks but they are only interested in themselves and to be honest I enjoy seeing my daughters more!

Three grandchildren. As a routine see, i.e. spend time with, two ( 20 minutes away) for a couple of hours every two weeks, the other (an hour away) for half a day every two weeks. Increased if we provide ad hoc care for work needs, parents evening out or in school holidays. Also if we are invited to spend more time or there is a special occasion.

We see our DGC two or three times a year but usually for several days at a time. They are always very happy to see us and we all enjoy catching up with each other.

We are welcome to go whenever we want but it is a long way and limited energy and finances also come into the equation.

See the 2 who live close every day, 3 live in Ireland 2 or 3 times a year, and the 2 in NZ every 5 years

My daughter and grandchildren live abroad, and usually visit us each summer for 2 or 3 weeks. I also go and visit them during winter months, it is too costly to go more often so I do see them twice a year.

New grandchild in UK is about an hours drive away and so far have seen her usually weekly.

My dear sister, sadly lost her husband at only 55. Their two sons are both high flyers and she and I dreaded that they would have to fly far from the nest. But no, wonder of wonders, they both have high faluting international jobs not far away so she is able to see her DGS regularly. It is bittersweet, of course, her DH is missing so much but they give her so much pleasure.

Fortunately our DD1 lives about 15 mins walk away so we see our FOUR! Lovely GC regularly. The eldest two are now more independent but our car, which they are insured to drive, ensures we "see" them reasonably regularly. DD says she and DH are like the Queen; they had two "batches" 10 years apart. So we frequently collect youngest two from school.
DD2 lives 3 hours away and produced their lovely DD nearly 3 years ago. At choir I was just saying, in conversation, that I miss regular contact like with the others as she's so far away. Then realised. . . . . .the ladies around me had DGC in NZ, Oz, Saudi, Dhubai, Singapore so I apologised and shut up. We do all share each other's joy and pride though in our DGC whether in person or on face time.
So we're not being smug just very, very grateful.

More than enough most of the time GS1 4 days a week after school, GS2 ditto after pre school, and GS3 probably a couple of times a week.

See in this context means physically in their presence , I presume Not Skype or similar

We have one granddaughter. We see her less now that she is 16 but we see her quite often. We saw her yesterday and today

We have 4 grandchildren . The two youngest ones we see several times a week, take swimming one a week and have them at ours for regular sleepovers.

The 2 older ones we see once every 3/4 weeks due to school and sports commitments. They too phone to ask for sleepovers which we do every holiday.

They all live within 20 mins of us.

I have 1 five year old GS. I see him about once a fortnight- but would love to see him more often. I'm moving a bit closer to them in Sept so may be able to do the walk to and from school sometimes but I work full time so not always easy.

I'm about to spend 10 whole days with him and his Mum & Dad - can't wait!

4 of my GC live within 10 minutes of us - we look after 2 of them (on separate days) every week; and the other 2 are in and out, so we see them at least once a week.

3 of them live 125 miles away and we see them about 4 times a year.

We will be on holiday with all 7 of them at the end of this month.

Only have one granddaughter aged five years. She is currently spending the summer with her father in the USA so I have only seen her on Skype a couple of times since she has been away.

When she returns, I will see her every day as I collect her from school and have her for the weekends whilst her mum (DD2) works.

Can't wait to have her back again, she's my sunshine.☀️

Allow me to be picky and touchy about this....
Define see.

I see my American grandchildren most weeks, but haven't been with them for 3 years, because travelling is so expensive., but will be with them soon

I see my London grandchild most weeks, but am with her 2/3 times a year.

Jane10 - no, not sounding smug at all. Just very fortunate.

Our 2 DGDs live about 1 hour away by car. We see them every few weeks as they are both at school now and do a lot at weekends. We always see them for birthdays and we are together somewhere, their house, our house, Auntiy's house or rented cottage, at Christmas. We also all go away together in the spring or summer.
Besides that they come to stay on their own and get spoiled.

I saw my first GD almost every day and weekends as she lived locally and her primary school was just along the road from my house. Now she is grown up and lives in Berkshire, I see her when I go to see the rest of the family, approximately every five or six weeks. They rarely visit me because as the children get older, they have more and more activities at weekends. I do see them at Christmas.

My DM was exactly the same - she did babysit once a year for the Xmas dinner dance, but her attitude was why should I want to go out now I had a family. She mellowed slightly and did take dds to London for a couple of trips when they were older, but never ds. She loved them all dearly though.

We see our two boys about every month to 6 weeks but we speak to them on Facetime regularly.

They are arriving for a week's hols starting tomorrow. Fortunately the weather looks great for the coming week.

Naively I thought when we became grandparents that we would be invited to family celebrations and relaxed weekends, however this has not been the case. We are asked to look after them which is lovely but exhausting. We do go to some family celebrations to be fair.

My DM although she was Lovely grandmother to our son made it clear he was our responsibility and rarely offered to help out, no wonder I got postnatal depression.

DGS lives within a mile of us. We see him nearly every day. (He is going to be with his father for ten days from next week, will be weird not seeing him). Our two DGDs live about 80 miles away. Now the eldest has started school we see them each school holiday and the odd weekend. We go up there several times a year too.

I see Dgd 3 or 4 times a week as I take her after school on two days, and we see her and dd1 most weekends as well. Dgs 1 is an hour and a half away, but we get down every two weeks and sometimes see him inbetween depending on inset days/dd 2's working hours. The two small dgs are 2 hours away but we see them every two weeks as well, and are often called on for emergency child care as they're still little. (1 & 3). We look out for special train offers as well which allows us to pop up for a long day for just a few pounds. Managed a trip earlier this year for £10 return for 2! Couldn't buy the petrol for that.

The older 2 ( still infants really ) once a week during term time. The youngest, a toddler, usually once a week. We see her now much more than when she was a baby, could this be because she needs more entertaining.

I realise we are very lucky, it could have been very different.

Apologies for the rogue 'I have' - I wonder what I have!

We are very lucky but I'm not smug as any of them could move at any time!

We have 2 sort of step grandsons who live in the village and we see them every now and again as they are 'big' boys and play football which is much more interesting than going to see old people!

I look after two every Wednesday after school (their other GM does Tuesday) take them back to their house, feed them and take them to whatever they are currently interested in. They are approx 40 mins away.

Two others live 40 mins in the opposite direction. We see them most weeks but on an ad hoc basis. We have them once a week in the school holidays and they often stay over.

The two who are furthest away are about 90 mins driving time. DD is bringing them on Sunday and then staying for a week. Because her siblings live around here it is much easier for DD to come and then meet up with the others round here. And she has babysitters!!

Nina, can he do that?

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