Grandparents are often more than just close relatives: they can act as a friend and even as a second mother or father. Spending time with them gives you that feeling of childhood warmth and innocence no matter how old you are. In other words, they’re really, really special. That’s exactly why you don’t want to miss out on National Grandparents Day. While the holiday may not garner as much attention as Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, it’s still the perfect opportunity to shower your grandparents with love in the form of gifts and extended visits. The absolute least you can do for them is to buy them a nice card, and use a heartwarming quote for National Grandparents Day inside of it to show them how much you care. Or even just use a quote in a social media post dedicated to them. a b Fergusson, Emma; Maughan, Barbara; Golding, Jean (2007). "Which children receive grandparental care and what effect does it have?". Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 49 (2): 161–169. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01840.x. PMID 17979960. A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his grandfather." — Angie Papadakis And then you have Amy Finklestein. Tommy, her only grandchild, couldn’t say Grandma, a moniker she wasn’t thrilled with anyway. “So when he heard everyone else call me Amy, he just did the same — so Amy it is,” she says. Her husband Howard is Oward. “It’s very cute and funny.” Hakoyama M, MaloneBeach EE. Predictors of grandparent–grandchild closeness: An ecological perspective. J Intergen Rel. 2013;11(1):32-49. doi:10.1080/15350770.2013.753834

A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.” — Charles and Ann Morse Earlier research kind of ignored grandpas in favor of grandmas, who were thought to have a more significant impact on grandchildren. This makes sense: Women traditionally are more responsible for childrearing, more socialized to put greater focus on family relationships, and statistically, they live longer than grandfathers and therefore have more time to influence grand-offspring. ( Researchers debate the legitimacy of the “grandmother effect,” however, which is the theory that menopause helped improve humans’ chances for survival because grandmas could help raise grandkids once grandmothers became infertile.) Xu, Ling; Tang, Fengyan; Li, Lydia W.; Dong, Xin Qi (2017-07-01). "Grandparent Caregiving and Psychological Well-Being Among Chinese American Older Adults—The Roles of Caregiving Burden and Pressure". The Journals of Gerontology: Series A. 72 (suppl_1): S56–S62. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glw186. ISSN 1079-5006. PMID 28575256. a b "Family Survey 2015" (PDF). Family Council. November 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-01.

Grandma With A Gun

Tommy Fury fails to mention fiancée Molly-Mae Hague as he pays tribute to their daughter Bambi on return to the UK after partying in Abu Dhabi Am I traumatised and never able to trust men again? Not quite. I am, after all, happily married. But till this day, I can’t stand stubby beards.

Growing up, in my family we called our grandmothers Grandma Rose and Grandma Bessie, to distinguish between the two; our only living grandfather was simply Grandpa. Similarly, my kids called their only set of living grandparents Grandma and Grandpa. While some used terms of endearments like Nona or Bubbe or Oma, for the most part there was little variation among the previous generation — almost everyone we knew used a word that, in some language, meant "grandmother" and "grandfather." Minkler, Meredith; Driver, Diane; Roe, Kathleen M.; Bedeian, Katherine (1993-12-01). "Community Interventions To Support Grandparent Caregivers". The Gerontologist. 33 (6): 807–811. doi: 10.1093/geront/33.6.807. ISSN 0016-9013. PMID 8314108. I think it’s important to differentiate between a grandparent who is actively helping their adult children and other types of grandparents,” Bowen says. “[With those] other types, we may not gain some of the benefits we’re talking about.” Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despited; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all." — Fanny FernFinally, being in charge of the grandparent names gives you an opportunity to carry on traditions from your own childhood. "My father is Gramf, since that's what we called my grandfather," says one mom. When your child chooses the grandparents' names Numerous studies find that mothers with granny-nannies earn more than they otherwise would. One way to measure this is to observe what happens when a grandmother dies. In Mexico working mothers who relied on a grandmother but lost her saw their earnings fall by half. This effect even applies, to a lesser extent, in societies such as India, where grandparents often enforce old-fashioned sexist norms. After the death of rural Indian grandmothers, the daughters-in-law who live them are less likely to work outside the home. In this area, at least, the help mothers-in-law give with child care and other chores seems to outweigh their demands that daughters-in-law stay home and press their husbands’ shirts. a b c d Zhou, Jing; Mao, Weiyu; Lee, Yura; Chi, Iris (2016-01-04). "The Impact of Caring for Grandchildren on Grandparents' Physical Health Outcomes: The Role of Intergenerational Support". Research on Aging. 39 (5): 612–634. doi: 10.1177/0164027515623332. PMID 26733495. S2CID 3501128.