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The first Sunday following Labour Day is Grandparents Day.
below is the official song for Grandparents Day. (the song is so corny it makes me shudder – but c’est la vie)

My own grandparents have passed. Mostly I remember my grandmothers as my grandfathers, my mother’s father died in her childhood and my father’s father died when I was very young in an auto accident.

My mother’s Mother, Julia Hamilton, I remember her for her unconditional love. My mother lived her life angry at her and I suppose it’s possible in her youth and inexperience my mother may have experienced abuse from her that was unknown to me. My father’s intolerance at my noise making meant it was this grandmother that can lay claim to getting me to verbalize and speak. I was raised by her from age 3 to first grade, (my father was jailed for mail fraud and my mother felt her mother a better caretaker for me in the circumstance). This how I’m a Yankee that psychically feels somewhat Southern, as this grandmother was a Virginian.

My other Grandmother, Melva Cook, was a Jewish woman that married the overt communist Arkansas gentile that was my Grandfather. She impressed on me the importance of reading and doing math, my experience of her was less as a loving grandmother and more as a taskmaster – but in my adulthood I must admit it was her training and stories of surviving the Depression that serve me well in my adulthood, especially in this current economic trouble.

In the here and now there is often a cultural divide between Grandparents of the baby boom and the parents that are their children. The freedoms of the 60′s that shaped the ethics and standards of Baby Boomers can contrast sharply with the conservative ethics and standards of the parents that are their children. Hippie parents seem fun, but the instability can teach a child the virtue of conservatism – is what’s going on I think. (So if you want cool kids, be a square hard ass parent).

So if your kid’s Grandparents are intolerable to you, telling you how to raise your kids, or exposing them to different standards than you have for your children – let it go. Their advice to you let’s you know they care, and if they don’t understand that you do things your way because you care – let them not understand. Love them anyway. Let your grandparents be themselves with your kids, it not like your kid’s environment can or should always be controlled by you – they need to experience different stuff to stimulate critical thinking is nothing else.

And, it is true that experience is a great teacher and your parents have experience you do not – have an open mind if they give you advice – it might be on point.

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