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Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.

Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents.

I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.