By Melanie Haiken
- Providing Loving Advice or Not
The world has changed and is constantly modifying. It’s because the world changing so quickly we can’t always say what we think about parenting our children and/or our grandchildren. All that to say is we should let the mama be the mama’ so to speak. Why? Because mothers, especially those giving birth for the first time, need your support and your wisdom as a grandmother who has done this once or twice or more. 🙂 It depends on how many children she (grandmother) has given birth to. So, what do you think grandmothers should not say?
Each child is different and may require changes in order to make them comfortable. Each birth brings new wisdom in raising each child as each one will have different needs. That’s why our daughters and sons ask us as grandmothers!
As a grandmother, we are women who most likely have experienced what they are going through, minor or major. From newborn baby to toddler. Grandmother’s life experience can help the parents, our sons and daughters enjoy their new baby.
Our new grandchild definitely gives us grandmothers a thrill the first time we hold them! As our grandchildren get older, grandmothers will be thrilled when you get to know your grandbabies. Each time you get hugs and hear that precious baby talk you’ll understand.
2. Advice As Grandmothers
As grandma’s, grandmother’s, Nani, or whatever our grandchildren call us as they get older. All we can do is provide the following:
1. Willingly “Listen” to questions our daughter or son (the grand baby’s parents) want to discuss as we help them transition from being childless to having a new baby and being a mother and father.
2. Provide loving, supportive and educational advice.
3. Be available when needed!
3. Advice As Grandmothers
Anyway, here are a few things where you might get a few giggles. Click this link, to read 25 Things Grandparents Should Never Say! Example: There was a Grandmother who said when the mother (her daughter) picked out a name for her soon-to-be-born baby: “Isn’t that a dog’s name?” Yikes! She wasn’t referring to the baby, just the ‘name. 🙂 Anyway, the article has some interesting and may give some parents different and exciting ‘grandmother’ names.
4. A Loving Glamma!
All the different things a Grandma should not say can get quite interesting. I thought some were pretty funny, but I may have a different sense of humor so don’t take offense. 🙂 Write a comment below on what you think after you review that article in the paragraph above, Click on the links at the beginning of this paragraph on ‘all the different things’ a grandma should never say!
Be well. Kiss your grandbabies and have some fun. Find things that the grandbaby, grandparents, and parents can enjoy!
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