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Young people need something stable to hang on to - a culture connection, a sense of their own past, a hope for their own future. Most of all, they need what grandparents can give them.
Sep 30, 2025
If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!
Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.
Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.
Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
It's funny what happens when you become a grandparent. You start to act all goofy and do things you never thought you'd do. It's terrific.
The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.
To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive.
We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was photographed on my grandmother's lap.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
My grandkids believe I'm the oldest thing in the world. And after two or three hours with them, I believe it, too.
The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.
The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.
A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside. If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma.
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Beautiful old people are works of art.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
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