Last update: April 23, 2015
The family is no longer the same as it was fifty years ago. With the increasing integration of women into the labor market, children need to be looked after by third parties while parents spend all day at work. In some cases the little ones are entrusted to babysitters or service personnel, or are sent to nurseries, while others are followed by their grandparents.
Usually the latter is the luckiest group since, if grandparents are healthy and loving, they will give their grandchildren irreplaceable care and dedication. However, it is not only grandchildren who emerge victorious from this relationship: grandparents also benefit from many benefits.
A quality relationship
Without any doubt the relationship established between grandparents and grandchildren is very different from that between parents and children. Let's see what this difference is due to.
- More fun, less responsibility: grandparents have the privilege of being able to enjoy grandchildren more since they do not have all the responsibility on their shoulders to raise them. For this they are more focused on having fun, playing and being compliant with children than their parents. This is very pleasant for the children, who will miss these incredible moments shared with their beloved grandparents.
- More values, fewer rules: One of the reasons grandparents are so compliant is that they educate children with the serenity of maturity and experience. This ensures that they are not too obsessed with rules like their parents and rather are concerned with transmitting values ​​such as unconditional love and friendship.
- The satisfaction of the mission accomplished: grandchildren are the continuation of themselves for grandparents, their continuation in this world. The little ones give grandparents the satisfaction of contemplating the fruit of a lifetime's work, a factor that certainly contributes to making the relationship so special and unique.
Ageless symbiosis
As with symbiosis, the naturally occurring relationship in which two species help each other, both grandparents and grandchildren are the winners of sharing these precious moments together.
- Symbiotic grandparents: these feel rejuvenated by the spontaneity and energy of the little ones. Contact with grandchildren gives them the opportunity to revive their inner child, to get rid of inhibitions and to shake off the weight of age, leaving room for fun with a healthy touch of madness.
Another benefit grandchildren bring to their grandparents is to help them keep up to date in areas such as technology. With the current times this is vital, given the dizzying pace at which changes occur today. In this way, grandchildren can teach grandparents to venture into the use of computers, video games, cell phones and the internet, which they would otherwise not even watch.
- Symbiotic grandchildren: Grandparents give their grandchildren priceless treasure with their fascinating stories from days gone by and anecdotes about parents as children. It is nothing more than a piece of living history, narrated by its protagonists who give children roots and a sense of identity. Thus, as a tree grows tall and leafy when it has deep roots, children, understanding better where they come from, are able to project themselves towards the future with more strength.
Having the opportunity to cultivate a good relationship between grandparents and grandchildren is one of the most beautiful and enriching experiences that exist, in which the barriers of age are eliminated as if by magic and which in the end concern only two inseparable friends who have fun and support each other.
