Question for grandparents

CJisinShape
CJisinShape Posts: 1,404 Member
edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
If your are close with your grand kids, how is your love different for them than your own children?

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  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Grandkids are the best! Now I get to be the one that never (well, rarely) says no and spoils them rotten, rather than the one that has to deal with them after others do.

    The love I have for them is different but not less than what I had for my own children.
  • CJisinShape
    CJisinShape Posts: 1,404 Member
    I just see how grandparents eyes light up when they talk about their grandchildren. And the permissiveness is also something that seems common too.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    One thing I've noticed is having been through it all - baby, child, teen to adult - I am much more tolerant with the grandkids than I was with my own children. It drives my daughter crazy when I just smile or laugh fondly when she tells me something that she thinks is such a big deal (as did I when my she was young) but I now know is just a normal and insignificant part of growing up.

    But it's probably good that parents make a big deal of it and aren't as tolerant as grandparents become. I love being the good guy all the time.
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