A little bit of the pressure

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Oh, so that’s the plan. Palm the kids off on the grandparents. There’s just one tiny flaw, JD – what makes you think the grandparents will comply?

Make it so that maybe grandma and grandpa wants to help out a little more. How does one do that exactly? How does one arrange or manipulate or disguise the situation such that grandparents who are not currently being daycare for the children will consent to become daycare for the children? “Hi Mom, hi Dad, we want to make it so that you want to help out with our kids a little more, by which we mean take care of them from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (or more if the commute is bad) five days a week. How can we make it so that you want to do that?”

This rosy question of course assumes that the grands live next door; if there’s a second commute to get the kids to the grands or the grands to the kids then it’s from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Roughly. Could be a little less, could be a little more.

There’s just one tiny snag. If the grands wanted to do this, wouldn’t they be doing it already?

But hey, Vance just said a little of the pressure, so maybe he means that the grands could drop in for an hour on Wednesday afternoons. Of course that assumes they live in the same city or suburb, which is true of some families, but certainly not all of them.

Annnnyway. I’m sure the great minds in the Trump regime will figure it out.

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3 responses to “A little bit of the pressure”

  1. iknklast Avatar
    iknklast

    And what if the grandparents work too? If my son wanted me to watch his kids (he doesn’t have any, but it’s a what if), he would have to fly them from California to Nebraska – western CA to eastern NE. That would cost way more than daycare!

    Also, grandparents are old. They have raised their kids. They are often tired, and have interests/lives of their own. For a lot of women, this is like saying, oh, well, you are only useful when you’re watching kids, so resume your useful life or else, bitch. At least, that’s how I hear it. But then, I’m a congenitally cranky old woman…one who doesn’t believe a parent owes their child the entirety of their life.

  2. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    Maybe Grampa and Gramma can learn some surgical techniques and perform them for neighbours free of charge, so that they can also relieve a bit of the pressure on the health care system while they’re babysitting. Heck, the grandkids can pitch in too. Just imagine all the other services that can be offloaded offered to grandparents in order to ease the burden on the federal government! Roadwork on Interstate highways! Up keep on Amtrack infrastructure!! Air traffic control!!!

    Funny how these parasites expect losers and suckers others to offer service and sacrifice when they themselves find it so abhorrent and incomprehensible. Unless, of course, they are beneficiaries of it. After all they’re the only ones who are worthy and deserving. There is no “Greater Good” than themselves.

  3. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Well you see that problem is solved by making it so that maybe grandma and grandpa want to help out a little bit i.e. 50 hours a week.

    How do they go about making it so that? Telling them, that’s how.

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