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Dear Care and Feeding, My husband and I have two boys: a 6-year-old and a 6-month-old. We live far away from my family, and because of COVID, my parents haven’t met their new grandkid in person yet. We FaceTime but it’s obviously not the same. I’m writing because my mother doesn’t seem that interested in our baby. She’s very close with my oldest boy and has been ever since he was a baby, so I assumed at first that her disinterest was simply because she has never met my youngest in per...

Dear Care and Feeding: My Mom Seems to Have No Interest in Her New Grandchild Slate 2/23/2021 © Provided by Slate Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by LSOphoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Dear Care and Feeding, My husband and I have two boys: a 6-year-old and a 6-month-old. We live far away from my family, and because of COVID, my parents haven’t met their new grandkid in person yet. We FaceTime ...

Dear Care and Feeding, My daughter, Olivia, is 16 and has a cousin, Lila, also 16, with whom she’s always been close despite living in different states. Lila was able to take a lot of extra classes while distance- learning and is graduating from high school this June; she is moving this summer to New York for college. Olivia hasn’t been doing well at all with distance learning, even though I hired an in-person tutor for her—she failed three classes last semester and might not graduate on ...

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Dear Care and Feeding, How much input should my mother-in-law have about what happens at her house in relation to my child? I have an 18-month-old, and my mother-in-law is a doting grandmother. However, she seems to have no respect for our parenting decisions, and flagrantly disregards them. Recently, we went as a family over to grandma’s house. Right after we got there, it came up in conversation that we still aren’t letting her watch TV. We are holding off as long as we can, partly becaus...

Dear Care and Feeding, My wife and I (also female) want to start a family. The plan is for me to be the one to be pregnant this first time. We are very excited about this prospect but there is one dark cloud forming overhead. My wife’s parents have been divorced for 20 years, and they both have had new partners for at least a decade. While things have always been a little tense on occasions when everyone is present,­­­ it was manageable until grandchildren entered the picture. Both of my w...

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Dear Care and Feeding, My second grade son has been called a bully by two classmates and their parents. Yet nobody, including his teacher, says that he has ever laid a hand on anyone, because we don’t condone violence in our household. My son is known to tease other kids, but that’s what every second grader does! Have we become so sensitive as a society that kids can’t poke fun at each other without being labeled bullies? If these kids can’t handle that, then the real world will eat the...

Dear Care and Feeding, I’m part of a close-knit extended family whose members all live in the same town. I used to be extremely close with one of my cousins (we were born the same year and grew up two houses down from each other), but he married a woman who demanded he cut off all contact with his own family and friends. None of us know why: We’re a pretty normal, boring family with minimal melodrama. (I met his wife a few times while they were dating and I don’t remember any kind of majo...

Dear Care and Feeding, I’m a stay-at-home mom to 4-year-old twins, and my husband is an executive for a large company. He makes really good money, and his job allows us to live in a big house in a very nice neighborhood, have two luxury cars, and we will be able to send our kids to an elite private school next year. The problem is that he doesn’t lift a finger at home with our sons. No baths, no feedings, no story time, no playing in the backyard, nothing. Whenever I ask him about it, he ge...