Category: grandchildren
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When we were young parents with small children, paterfamilias and I suffered from a strange paradox. We would pay good money to hire a babysitter so we could go out to dinner without our children. But then we would spend the better part of that dinner hour talking about our children–their amazing strengths, the anathema…
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This is a story Pat, who babysits her four grandchildren two days a week, tells me: She is careful–very careful–about housekeeping on the days she spends in her son's and daughter-in-law's house. If she sees dirty dishes in the sink, she'll clear them. If she sees a floor that's particularly dirty–and with four kids aged…
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Paterfamlias and I are arguing. To pull or not to pull the weeds. PF wants to sheer them down–they are almost as high as he is. I say, hands off. The reason: the weeds in question sit on a small plot in front of our daughter's home and, for all we know, may not be…
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A year ago, I was filled with the warring emotions of sadness and joy. Joy that Alpha daughter was leaving on a great adventure: She and her family–one of my Grands and my son-in-law–would be living in Berlin for a year. What an opportunity. What an eye-opening challenge for my Grand who was then eight…
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An English study looks at grandparent attitudes toward interfering in the discipline of their grandchildren. Hint: they are much like ours.
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When your grown kids live far from home, Sunday evenings at Chinese restaurants can be a sad reminder of what you’re missing.
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It is uncomfortable to watch when our grown children impose stricter disciplinary measures than we would. But that’s their right.
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The grown children stay so focused on their children that it is hard to get an adult conversation going.
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One grandmother articulates what it is she loves about babysitting her grandchildren.
