write an article on grandparents one of lifes greatest gift
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Grandparents' Day is Sept. 8! Time to write about what grandparents would appreciate receiving on their special day. Actually, most of us would just like to feel appreciated, which has little to do with gifts, gift wrap, or anything else with a price tag.
One way to make grandparents feel appreciated is to avoid eye-rolling every time the good old days are mentioned. What if it's true that rolling eyes just might stay that way? After all, every day we hear of studies that dispute previous studies. Remember when coffee was bad and now it's good? Chocolate used to be bad and now it, too, is good? Who knows about rolled eyes? Also, we elders know that some of the good old days we dredge up were not all good and are just old, but sometimes a memory pops up and flies out of our mouths before we can catch it. Give us the gift of kindly tolerance.
We appreciate visiting with family any way we can — in person, via Skype, email, snail-mail and phone. Some grandparents rarely see their children or grandchildren due to our mobile society. When we were children, grandma and grandpa usually lived near or with us; it was easy to keep up with what everyone was doing. On the other hand, when families live within shouting distance of each other, the fine line between being interested and meddling becomes blurred, which causes some of the shouting. However, we elders can control meddling issues by biting our tongues instead of opining before we are asked for advice. When you meet elders who lisp, don't assume it's due to bad dentures; it could be the result of tactfully and repeatedly biting their tongue to keep it from wagging. Also, an advantage of being an elder is that we can feign hearing problems to avoid discussions when we are being opined upon by well-meaning family members who haven't walked in our corrective shoes.
After our children become adults, the best gifts are to visit us without coercion, tease us without malice, listen tactfully when we talk and acknowledge that we may actually have something useful to say. We hope that as adults they realize that if we were the perfect parents that some of them wanted, they would have to be perfect children — and wouldn't such excessive perfection make all of us boring? Age and experience teach us that what parents and grandparents need is not perfection but love, a sense of humor, a lot of patience and a little bit of luck.
If our children find life-mates and choose to make us grandparents, we look forward to sticky kid-hugs, more family dinner invitations than dinner guests and pictures to use when other grandparents challenge us to photo duels of our grandchildren versus their grandchildren, who don't come close to being as smart, accomplished and attractive as ours. ... but who's judging?