Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.
If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!
You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.
It is, I suppose, the business of grandparents to create memories and the relative of memories: traditions. We want to lodge moments, like snapshots, in the fleeting video of time.
It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.
All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often, grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.
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.
In our culture, when the parents are having a tough time, the grandparents take care of the kids.
My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
I'm kind of crazy with karma. I really believe that everything you do revisits you, so, I'm really adamant about the kids seeing the grandparents, so like, I can see my grandkids, you know what I mean?
My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.
