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Simple Pleasures and Quality Living
This is accomplished as grandparents
affirm family history, and through
holiday and other rituals thrust the past
into the present. The religious faith and
values they transmit are of enormous
significance
in
a
grandchild's
development.
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Mentor. The real magic of learning
comes when occasionally one finds
a
mentor who can imbue his deep Jove
for
a
subject into
a
student. The
emotional attachments which draw
grandchild and grandparent together
make
a
grandparent's lessons stick
forever in
a
child's mind. And the
curriculum is limited only by the
grandparent's interest and the child's
capacity to understand.
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Role Model. Today's grandchildren
will be grandparents for nearly half their
lives.
And their performance will
depend largely upon the images of
grandparenting they will carry inside of
them. Grandparents seNe
as
strong
models of the aging process, family
values, attitudes, moral ideals, talents
and of how to nurture one's own grown
children.
Grandparents are living
examples of what grandchildren can
expect one day to become.
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