Grandparent- The warm nest of compassion, joy and love.

Sonika
Good Vibes Club
Published in
3 min readJul 16, 2024

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These feelings and emotions often take a while to grow and develop accordingly. But sometimes, the nurturing instinct flows endlessly with the first touch of your grandchild.

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Relationships between families re-shape and grow when grandchildren arrive. When grandchildren arrive, they bring great joy and a sense of re-living one's childhood. Their onset possibly brings the parents and grandparents closer.

These feelings and emotions often take a while to grow and develop accordingly. But sometimes, the nurturing instinct flows endlessly with the first touch of your grandchild.

Grand Parent = Grand Parenting

When the parent becomes GRAND, the parenting also becomes GRAND.

Yes!!!

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Grandparents have experienced life longer than the parents and have seen their surroundings develop more than the parents. In this continuous learning process, adaptability, and evolution, grandparents shower undivided attention, warmth, and compassion that help parents bond with their children and vice versa.

A better human…

Grandparents share experiences and strongly bestow lessons and teachings on grandchildren. They help develop patience, introspection, understanding, and care that help nurture and raise better human beings.

The real world…

Grandparents make your child's approach to life much more practical. They balance the real world with the child's fantasy world by sharing their experiences and stories.

Healthy Relationships…

Grandparents are best at fostering healthy relationships and maintaining a balance with loving relationships. This is a huge plus for grandchildren as it helps them function well socially and infuses them with sensibility and confidence while dealing with relationships.

A much closer and fuller family bond…

Grandparents fill in the gaps that sometimes parents cannot because of multiple roles and responsibilities or shortcomings. They can be an enormous boost to parenting.

Keeps family engaged and connected…

Grandchildren and grandparents can connect online and offline. This will help develop skills and habits that are left behind because of lifestyle changes.

Grandparents and grandchildren thrive together and share warmth and a strong sensitivity towards not only surrounding family members but also towards other individuals whom they interact with along with their lifeline. Grandparents regain the lost patience, sensibility, and hope with grandchildren around them. Many energies activate when they see the children of their loved ones around them. You must have noticed grandparents becoming physically, mentally, and emotionally more active. That's because they experience new and hopeful synergies deeply connected to them.

Grandparents help develop parenting and its attributes. Care and concern become pivotal threads of the symbiosis of life and survival. Socialising becomes more accommodating, joyous and full of exploration.

Check out my next article on ‘Parenting our Parents’.

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