That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everything people say about grandparenthood is true - it is pleasure without responsibility. It is unquestioned love.
A grandparent can be simply affirming. A grandparent has been there, done that child-raising stuff, and has the wisdom of experience. And so in some ways, they're free to love without the anxiety of being the actual parents. They're free to give.
Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.
Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own, but I'm not interested in other people's. It's something you tolerate because they are yours.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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.
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.
My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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