DEAR DEIDRE: I SCRIMP and save to provide for my children but I feel like a complete failure compared with their grandparents, who easily throw their money around.
I’m a 38-year-old single mum. I have been on my own since I split up with my partner three years ago.
I have three children aged ten, eight and six and I’m off work with stress-related sickness.
I have always bought my children everything they want at Christmas and on their birthdays.
Over the Easter holidays their grandparents spoilt them rotten.
I don’t mind them giving my children treats but they told them they would also be putting £500 into their bank accounts.
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I feel like a failure because they can flash the cash whenever the mood takes them.
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DEIDRE SAYS: You are doing such a good job raising your children and are anything but a failure.
Many view motherhood as the hardest job of all.
Grandparents like to spoil their grandchildren in all sorts of ways.
You are at a different life stage to their grandparents who obviously want to spend their disposable income on your children.
When your children have grown up, without so many financial responsibilities, you too may enjoy spoiling your grandchildren.
Is the problem really that you feel undermined? If so, remember you are their mum, and nobody can ever take that away from you.
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