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Grandparent We'll Become |
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by wildrose  (September 2006) (rank 16th) |
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First before you figure out how old I am and whether I am a grandparent or not, well...I am only 30 years old and I am 'just' a mother. 'Not' yet a grandparent.
My mother is a grand mother for 17 grand-children and I have seen that she is
a loving-caring grand mother. She is my role model to become a grandparent.
I have heard or seen many fortunate grandparents who forget who they are for their grand-children. They seem to discontinue their responsibility to family circle up to their children. Meaning, they do not want to involve themself in their grand-children's life. They just become an individual who only care so much about themself. I understand we all have a personal goal or dream, but I also understand once we enter the family circle our live will always attach to it. We cannot isolate ourself from our love ones (our childrend and their children). We will always be a parent to our children and grandparent to our grand-children. As family we give our love and care without granted.
Since we become a parent and experiencing the parenthood, we promise to ourself 'if' one day we become a grandparent (specialy after we retired from any works):
- we would give our time as much as we could to be with our grand-children (i.e. birthday(s), looking after while their parent away/work, 'specialy' when both parent are working, etc)
- we would make our house as safe as it could be for our grand-children to stay (some individual might like nick nack or expensive things, we suppose, we could have them but we will put them where it safe from little hands)
- we would always open mind with any new parenting developments (we know that world change a lot, so is parenting practices. We may have to learn basic life saving again)
- we would appreciate and understand our boundary (i.e parent's rules. In case of food and drink wise, etc)
- anything we do to help our children and spending times with our grand-children, we will not do it as a chore, instead as gratefulness to be who we are
We would remind each other of those 5 basic rules as our foundation to become a loving-caring grandparent.
Have you ask yourself about how you would become a grandparent one day?
