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I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards... the world of nonprofits or charities. They want to leave a better place.

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.

Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.

I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.