I've been had! Well,........ manipulated!

[RSKY]

There is a difference between spoiling grandkids and ruining them. We spoil ours I know BUT they actually ask for very little. There are no fits in stores wanting a toy. They do ask to come and stay with us for a night or so. And they ask to go to a particular place to eat. That is all they ask for. The grand wanting to go to the beach knows that we always go on a vacation with them and was putting in her two cents as to where we will go. Her parents were talking about a trip out west to Wyoming for some reason and that's not really where she wants to go.

RSKY

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

If spoiling them means buying a few things for them to enjoy. To spend ample opportunity to mentor their lives and instill my values. As well as teach them about right wrong, moral and ethical things in life. And of course who GOD is and how we fit into his kingdom, salvation and folling his ways.

Guilty as charged.

My kids/GK have always known GP/GM are not an ATM if they want something they have to arrange a plan with us to work it out on the farm, around the house. There is never nothing to do on a farm so we have ample opportunity for them to earn some moola.

I see nothing wrong with getting a calcium supplement (ice cream) once/twice a week. To keep the boned strong of course.

 

[masseyrider]

You don't have to justify your over compensation with the GKs to try and make up for the lack of attention to your kids in the day.
You were busy making a living.
Just be happy with the way things are.
You have the resources to spoil them and a conscience never forgets.

 

[MossRoad]

I got my daughters certified to SCUBA when they were 17 and 13. We dove in the Keys, up and down the east coast, in Mexico, and the Caymans. When the oldest was a senior in high school a friend invited her to go out on Kentucky Lake in their family's boat and I realized neither child had been on the huge lake twenty miles from our home. Then for some reason while they thought nothing of going out ten miles from land and diving 60-80 feet under water in the ocean they were always scared of the fresh water lake.

The Great Lakes!

No sharks and salt-free.

 

[MossRoad]

Having spent more time sailing from both than most people you know, lakes are gross. Give me salt water and sand, over fresh water and mud or slimy rocks, ten times out of ten.

You need to get inland more...


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[MossRoad]

Canada geese love lake beaches. So I try to avoid them

I rarely see geese on Lake Michigan beaches.... I think the sand is too hot!

 

[WinterDeere]

You need to get inland more...


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Oh, get out into the water, and the lakes are great. But their shores tend to be totally gross, by comparison to a real beach, at least in this part of the country.

Give me sand crabs and seaguls over Canada goose crap and stinky mud. Of course, I'm willing to accept that things can be very different across this great country of ours, I can only speak from local experience.

 

[MossRoad]

Oh, get out into the water, and the lakes are great. But their shores tend to be totally gross, by comparison to a real beach, at least in this part of the country.

Give me sand crabs and seaguls over Canada goose crap and stinky mud. Of course, I'm willing to accept that things can be very different across this great country of ours, I can only speak from local experience.

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Come to the sunset coast of Lake Michigan.

 

[deezler]

My fam is heading up to Platte river (Michigan) in a couple weeks for our annual end-of-summer camping trip. It sucks there, no one else should consider going. It's absolutely awful up there, on a slimy inland lake.

 

[MossRoad]

My fam is heading up to Platte river (Michigan) in a couple weeks for our annual end-of-summer camping trip. It sucks there, no one else should consider going. It's absolutely awful up there, on a slimy inland lake.

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Horrible!