Dear Dáithí: I just can't get excited about my son's partner's children at all

I do like children, and I would love lots of grandchildren that I could get to know from the moment they are born

'I just can't get excited about my son's partner's children at all. I just don't feel ready to see them as my own grandchildren. They are welcome here when they visit, of course. And I do have small treats ready for them, but they feel like visitors who I'm polite to and not like my own'

D EAR Dáithí,

I don’t want to come across as cold or uncaring at all, but I have to get this out.