A lot of the older Xers and Zers will be turning into grandparents (and some are grandparents) soon! I'm just curious to know how you guys feel. I'm still pretty young but I can envision settling down and having kids in a couple of years hopefully to live long and when I’m established. I'd appreciate any thoughts.
How would you feel to have grandchildren in the future?
How would you feel or say when your future grandchildren asks you what was it like for you growing up and when you were young?
I'm very curious how Gen Zers (the oldest of whom are only 23) would be grandparents soon without resorting to time travel, but besides that...
From my observations and limited experience, being a grandparent is a lot like being a parent, but with some of the pleasures and most of the difficulties removed. I think that most people back away from the idea because it's a sign of being old, but as someone whose hair started going gray at 17, and starting thinning at 18, that doesn't bother me.
When my niece was born, it was after my mother had died; since she never got the chance to know/brag about her grandkids, I did it for her. I taught my niblings to play rummy while holding a Pirouline between their teeth and lips like a cigar, in the same way my grandmother taught me. They even (of their own volition, though I certainly didn't oppose it) started referring to me as "uncle-grandma", until they went to school and their teachers found out, and my siblings made them stop.
I can't wait to be a parent, let alone a grandparent.. But that's a ways away for me, if it even happens.. You never know how things will get in the future..
If i had a kid, i’d ask they keep it in their pants/keep their legs closed til they are at least 18+ and out of my house. I rather not become a grandparent to a teen mom/dad
no opinion; my kids don't seem to be in a hurry, lol
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I would love it but, I'd need to become a parent, first and, it's not looking like that's very likely to happen!
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