My in laws live literally a block away and watch our kids multiple times a week. The girls sleep over there sometimes too. In no way are either of them a third

My in laws live literally a block away and watch our kids multiple times a week. The girls sleep over there sometimes too. In no way are either of them a third 'parent'. This idea that grandparents and aunts and uncles can actually be a third parent has to die. No one who actually lives in these situations is confused as to who's who. We lived with my grandparents as children and while again, we loved them very much and they watched and cared for us like parents... The relationship is fundamentally different.