So are your children's grandparents a big part of the lives of your children? They are in my baby's life

they tend to be more affectionate and kind than what we are usually..thats because when we are working and all that we are slightly frustated...

so we tend to be upset by the slightest mistakes our kids make..

grandparents tend to be soft hearted to them...

i feel grandparents play quite an important role, places where both the parents are not present, they are the main nannies of the kids and also they do tell a lot of good stories, much better than nannies, not because they are not paid, but because there is a strange happiness they get when interacting with our kids.

One set are massively involved. One set has only seen my two-year old once and I don't think it bothers them in the least. They like the idea of having grandkids, especially if they accomplish something and they like the idea of promising them things to make them happy, but they don't like to actually have to deal with them.

I think it's very important for the grandparents to get involved. The child needs as much family interaction as possible to develop full social skills.

Yes, my father and step mother especially. They love their grandbabies very much and they show it all the time!

My husband's parents are more involved in our kids' lives than mine, only because we live in the same town. If we lived closer to my parents, I have no doubt they would be involved, as well.

No they are not. I mean we often visit them, something like once per week, but i really do not think that my kids are in anyway influenced by these visits to them.
I do not regret it after all, i like me and my wife to be the only responsible for the education of our child, and we assume all the consequences that come from here.

My parents are very much a part of our childrens lives. This is very important to us. I come from a very tight knit family. My husbands family is quite the opposite, and his family has very limited involvement with our kids.

Grandparents are not, and were not, a huge presence in my sons' lives. They spent some time with them but I didn't encourage unsupervised interaction.