Dear Queenie,
My daughter has 2 children and I have always sent them gifts on special occasions like birthdays and Christmas, but never once has either of them bothered to thank me, not by a written note or even a phone call, and none of them have ever sent me so much as a card or made a phone call on my birthday.
Queenie, how long do I have to keep up sending them gifts?—Unappreciated grandma
Dear Unappreciated,
Not one moment longer than you feel like doing so. And if they are so presumptuous as to ask why you stopped, tell them they made it clear that they did not care about your gifts, so you decided to stop wasting your time and money.
