Father stands up for 8-year-old stepson after grandmother excludes him from family gatherings for years, under the guise of being germ-conscious: ‘[She wants] him to feel unwanted’

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• "My grandma keeps excluding my stepson from gatherings and I just found out it was never about ‘germs’"

  
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• Kids will be kids. Any 8-year-old boy would struggle with cleanliness, loud behavior, and, honestly, a lack of social etiquette. Though you want to instill positive habits at a young age, you can't expect a child under 10 years old to be perfect.

  The man who shares this story explains that he has been in his stepson's life since the boy was three years old, AKA, most of the child's life. The man's mother has an issue with germs, allegedly, so she doesn't have the man's stepson over because of his imperfect etiquette and messy demeanor. Or, so she says.

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