Dear friends visited family about 9 hours away to see their grandchildren of toddler age who are their only grandchildren. The other set of grandparents live nearby and see these children regularly. Unfortunately the little ones stayed with the familiar grandparents and avoided the grandparents visiting from so far away. It was painful to drive all that distance and experience rejection from the children for the long Thanksgiving weekend seeing the wonderful easy relationship that the other grandparents are enjoying.

Any advice for these grandparents to build the relationship with grandchildren from a distance? This is not an unusual situation.