In-laws treating children differently. Should I tell them?
My MIL and FIL are visiting for a couple of weeks to see the new baby. On the first night they were here each of them gave $300 to SD (10) for pocket money, so $600 in total! Admittedly they brought a bag of baby toys/teethers for the baby but for SD they used to bring several suitcases worth of clothes, books and toys each time they visited when she was tiny. But when I mentioned that my baby has a Child ISA and a Junior SIPP they didn’t get the hint. I don’t want to seem ungrateful or greedy. How should I approach the subject that they now have two grand children that need to be treated equally? I’m embarrassed to bring the subject up directly because it’s about money.
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300?! Wtf! And 100% they should be treating the kids equally!! Your partner should ideally have the conversation but if he doesn’t and it happens again I would broach it with them myself xx
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I understand your frustration but it’s sort of up to them what they give, i’m not sure you can have much say or control over it. £300 does seem like a crazy amount of money to give to a child that age - perhaps it could be suggested that they give her less and put some into her savings and that might trigger them to do the same for your little one?
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