How good are grandparents as parents? Quite frankly, they can suck. They tend to spoil the living daylights out of your kids, teach them all kinds of rubbish habits, undo weeks of careful disciplining and training, and don't give a crap about the "holistic upbringing framework" that parents brainstorm and try to implement on their kids.
Basically, grandparents try to correct all their cock-ups when they tried bringing up their own kids when they babysit their grandkids. In doing so, they make worse cock-ups.
But what will we do without grandparents? They are the force of love and goodness in a world that can be quite restrictive with parents' ridiculous and elaborate "holistic upbringing frameworks". They are the perpetual "good cops" and angels. Grandparents are meant to spoil, and that's how most of us remember our grandparents to be.
You can bet I will pamper my own grandkids if I have a chance to see them :)
Basically, grandparents try to correct all their cock-ups when they tried bringing up their own kids when they babysit their grandkids. In doing so, they make worse cock-ups.
But what will we do without grandparents? They are the force of love and goodness in a world that can be quite restrictive with parents' ridiculous and elaborate "holistic upbringing frameworks". They are the perpetual "good cops" and angels. Grandparents are meant to spoil, and that's how most of us remember our grandparents to be.
You can bet I will pamper my own grandkids if I have a chance to see them :)
2 comments:
haha, I'm sure your parents pampered you when you were a little boy before you could remember....afterall, it has been years since they got to carry babies in their arms, and furthermore, they are a menifestion of the Mercy of Allah in this world...
Yup, but let me just clarify before you get the wrong idea... grandparents are great parents to their kids but not to their grandkids,ie. grandparents don't have the same urgent need to be strict etc with their grandkids.
So yes, grandparents are vital to every kid, but they can't do the same function as a kid's parent in a normal situation. Hope you know what I mean! :)
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