{"id":9220,"date":"2025-10-03T10:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T10:23:18","slug":"i-only-take-my-real-grandchildren-to-family-events-am-i-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=9220","title":{"rendered":"I Only Take My Real Grandchildren to Family Events\u2014Am I Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I booked a spa day with my granddaughter and had been looking forward to it for weeks. At the very last minute, my DIL begged me to take her son from her previous marriage too. I snapped, \u201cThis is family time, and we\u2019re not related!\u201d and left him crying with a babysitter while my granddaughter and I went ahead with our plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I got back, I was horrified to find he had drawn pictures of our family with himself left out. My DIL barely looked at me, and the house was painfully silent. I can\u2019t shake the image of that little boy sitting alone, feeling unwanted and excluded. It has stayed with me ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love my granddaughter deeply, but I don\u2019t feel the same connection with him\u2014and I honestly don\u2019t know how to build it. I never meant to cause harm, but maybe my words and choices did more damage than I realized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was I wrong to keep that time just for my granddaughter? How do I handle this without breaking the family apart? I\u2019d really appreciate advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I booked a spa day with my granddaughter and had been looking forward to it for weeks. At the very last minute, my DIL begged me to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":215,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9222,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions\/9222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}