Although already a “step” grandma to two adorable little
boys I am soon to be a fully fledged, card-carrying granny to my son and his
wife’s first baby – another boy.
All my granny girl friends have been giving me advice on
this special job and they have all, without exception, become completely dotty
about their grandchildren which clearly is par for the course and I look
forward to becoming dotty with them!
Being a grandparent is nothing at all like being a parent
and I don’t mean simply that you can hand the child back to its parents at the
end of the visit: today’s parents do things quite differently from when they
were brought up (by us) – not better or worse, just differently. But the world
is a different place – is it true that all babies are provided with a cell
phone and IPad at birth before they can leave the hospital? From the moment the
baby goes home – in a regulation car seat instead of cradled in its mother’s
arms – very little is as I remember it.
I discovered a website that is there to help all new and
existing grandparents, mainly in the USA but the ideas and products etc must be
available in many countries, help them negotiate the complicated mine field of
getting it right with ones daughter or daughter in law and not being old
fashioned. The name of the website
confused me at first as I thought originally it was something delicious to eat!
Check it out if you have or are planning to have grandchildren
I am sure you will find it enlightening, helpful and
extensive in its coverage of so many facets of being a grandparent – I know it
will be of use to me and I shall be the most perfect granny of all time – dotty
like all the rest (including the editor of this site!) but prepared for all
eventualities.
Wishing you sunshine, and happy babies, whatever the weather.
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