Missing the grandchildren due to lockdown
Watch this postLots of us are missing our grandchildren especially if you contribute to their care
However, there is another side to this - our usually working sons and daughters have a newfound respect for us and would rather be at work
Possibly a generalisation but my daughter now realises that my 10 years at home was not the easy option but following in my own Mother's footsteps it was the right thing to do for our family.
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I’ve done the full home schooling/ creative/ outside play thing. Pretty exhausting but on the whole successful.There have been many challenges and I’ve tried to give them the same attention and fun as I gave my own five, and by bedtime I’ve been shattered, albeit happily so.
It has made me realise why we don’t have babies in our sixties!
The thing I didn't expect was entertaining the Singaporean grandchildren while Daddy makes important phone calls. That's a whole new level of technological experience
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Loved your story. Guess you are a distance grandparent? Me too. Three of our four kids and 5 of our six grandchildren are spread across Edinburgh, Oxford, London, Chicago and Atlanta. I live in New Zealand. My craziest distance babysitting occasion was when my toddler grandson was sat on the potty outside on the deck and I read him a story on a propped up iPhone (which amazingly he did not mess with). It was a 'red-letter day' for distance grandparenting when he produced the goods. My daughter was delighted.
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Seems it only 2 of us that feel like this.Maybe others are like my daughter's Mother in Law she left her job in a jewelers to childmind her 1st grandchild now they have 6 Five of which they look after on a regular basis but her husband is retired now so helps out.
My youngest ones are due to start nursery in January so it will.be care for short periods at the beginning and end of the day.
I appreciate your post let's hope we appreciate our grandchildren equally when this is over until. they start to wind is up again.My snack shelf has never stayed so well stocked for so long.The teddy bear crisps are good not so.keen on rice cakes though.