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Simple Pleasures and Quality Living
TOY STORE: What grandparents
buy out on their grandchild's
birthday.
UNIVERSE: Area in which your
grandchildren are the cutest.
VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY: How
much grandchildren love their
grandparents.
WRONG:
The one thing a
grandchild can't do.
YES: A grandparent's answer to
any question that starts with
"Can I have..."
Just what are grandparents for? From
his extensive interviews with grandchildren, Dr.
Arthur Kornhaber, M.D. has uncovered five
roles which they express to be especially
significant
•
Historian. Grandparents represent
realistic access to "the olden days"
-–
another dimension in time. As family
historians and guardians of the
heritage--grandparents are the only
way distant or long-dead relatives can
be brought to life. In the role of official
biographers of
a
child's parents,
grandparents offer expanded access to
a
child's roots
--
the knowledge of
where I came from and therefore I
really
am.
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