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all the grandparents on here....
are you more tolerant with your grandkids than you were with your kids.
always been very easy going with my kids, but i seem moreso with the grandaughter.
or is it just that we mellow with age?
I think it's because you can hand them back! 😛 Not that I'd know, don't have kids never mind grandkids, value my sanity too much! 😆
not a grandparent,but my niece/nephew get away with far more than I/sister
did with them as Mum/Dad,but then again it's a differant relationship and maybe they've learnt from any mistakes they made.
you big soft bugger 😉
I was pretty laid back with my lads when they were young, but I do believe I'm pretty more tolerant of the grandson - he's on his way over as we speak 😆
Also its less about 'handing them back' and more about how you don't have to live with them day-in/out - according to my mum.
Bizarre. Most grandparents I know are, yes, more tolerant of their grandkids - but less tolerant of almost everything else in this modern, going to hell in a handcart, world of ours. I wonder whether grandparents were more, or less, tolerant back in the good old days.
ton - Member
all the grandparents on here....
are you more tolerant with your grandkids than you were with your kids.
always been very easy going with my kids, but i seem moreso with the grandaughter.
or is it just that we mellow with age?Posted 6 hours ago # Report-Post
No.Treat them just the same. Having said that daughter alwasy complains youngest grandson(5)goes home with a new bad habit of some sort. He has his first mtb, an Islabike and loves it.
Hoping to get up to GT with oldest grandson(coming 13)next Sat. He is daughter-in-laws 1st by prev hubby and was a right pain when younger but is mellowing into a nice lad. He now has 2little sisters(5 & 1wk)so is keen to come and stay with us and get out. atm he is more bmx/jump bike orinentated but is taking a shine to mtbing giving me another excuse to get out 😉
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