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Submitted by: Alyssa

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This is a fairly common blended family problem. I know Christmas is over now, and I apologize for not getting to this sooner. You must have fallen through the cracks. Your parents put you in a really uncomfortable situation. I would have suggested being very upfront with them about putting themselves in the non-biological children's shoes and how that would feel watching the other kids open all these extra gifts. There's nothing wrong with your parents wanting to dote on their grandchildren more - it's the timing that's off. I would have suggested that, they invite your 2 children over after Christmas or even before for sleep over or even just a short visit. At THAT time, they could give extra gifts to the kids. Even though you have all 4 kids at the same time, it doesn't mean that they can separately visit extended family. You can't always keep everything equal no matter. And that's a dangerous precedent to set. But how your parents were wanting to handle it was blatantly flaunting stuff in front of the other kids and wrong. I hope Christmas worked out ok for you and again, I'm sorry I didn't catch this sooner.

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