GRAND PARENTING
GRAND PARENTING PART 11
BY: RICHARD EYRE & LINDA EYRE, CO-AUTHORS, TEACH YOUR CHILDREN VALUES
Editor’ s note: This is article two in a three part series on Grandparenting. Some of the content is taken from the Eyres’ new book LIFE IN FULL Maximizing your Longevity and your Legacy.
WE WERE speaking on a cruise ship to 150“ seniors” the week before last and we asked how many of them would want to go back and be 20 or 30 again. Two hands went up. The rest said no. When we asked why, they said, essentially, that life is better now. When we asked why again, the predominate answer was“ Grandkids!”
Ahhhh, grandkids! There is nothing like them. Mary H. Waldrip said“ Grandchildren are God’ s way of compensating us for growing older.” Joan McIntosh said“ They say genes skip generations. Maybe that’ s why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.”
It’ s not that grandkids are easy physically, or any other way. As Gene Perret put it,“ My grandkids believe I’ m the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it too.” And an unknown author said“ I have a warm feeling after playing with my grandchildren. It’ s the liniment working.”
There is an old Welsh Proverb that says,
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