Showing posts with label Grandparents are most important. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grandparents are most important. Show all posts

Grandparents are most important

When a new committee is elected for an organization, a wise organisation ensures that either the chairperson or the secretly of retiring committee sit on the new committee.The reason for this is obvious: there needs to be happy to share their experience.The case is similar with grandparents.They ensure that there is continuity in the family.They are the links to the past.They remember when life was similar and can belt out advice based on experience rather than from theory.Whereas, knowledge on all sports of technology is available from books and consultants, such simple things like when to rush a woman to the hospital for delivery is known only through experience.Grandparents are adept at this type of knowledge.
Grandparents are the guardians of wisdom.What they are able to share with the younger generation-such as their grandchildren-is the wisdom of having been there and having done that and gained from it.In my own experience it was my grandfather who taught me that there was more to life than watching TV.I learned that reading  is a fascinating pastime from my grandfather I learned to enjoy the classics.I also learned to love nature because the old man had the time and patience to take me on long hikes and show m
e that trees were not  tree.Most of our parents are usually too busy are usually too busy earning a living to do anything  else for us.Lucky indeed are individuals who grow up with at least one set of grandparents.
Though I have often seen my parents treating their parents as if they were children to be taken care of, I have often seen my parents-especially in moments of stress-depending on them.The time my brother wife gave birth to her first baby.She was in pain;my mother panicked and called my grandmother- not the doctor.My father just clasped his hands and prayed.My grandparents arrived with in minutes.I could see the relief on my parents faces.Immediately the old timer took over.My grandparents put her arms around my mother to assure her she was there.Then she went and took her by the hand.My grandmother began to time the abdominal convulsions.''The baby will be born by morning'', she announced.
In any organised society, it is the older people who are in charge.The younger and more energetic ones who get things done, but the reins of power are held by the elders.This is true in so called  'primitive' societies as well as in powerful countries with organised government.Many world leaders are grandparents or at least people who are older.This is an indication that wisdom-not  knowledge alone-is required for effective leadership.

Grandparents

Many of us fortunate enough to have grandparents close by at the time that we are born.In fact when our mothers became pregnant to bear us, no doubt they must have turned to their parents, our grandparents, for advice and assistance.This is probably because our parents were young and needed someone to hold their hands; someone who had been depended on their parents at the crucial time.Following this, during our childhood too , our grandparents would have been  there at the side of our parents to help bring us up when we were infants.Needless to say , we owe much to our grandparents.
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This attitude of helping to look after one's grandchildren is only present in members of the human race.No other known animal on the planet seems to have this particular  trend.Strangely also, the tradition of grandparents playing an important role in the birth and upbringing of grandchildren seems to be a universal trend among humans.Just like the fact that the best arrangement for couples in the human race is to be together for life, subject to divorce not taking place ,grandparents too must have been an outcome of evolution.It is probable also through the five million years of man's existence on this planet, we have found that having grandparents around is the best thing.The origins of traditions are lost in oblivion, but we may be sure that they are founded upon what is practical; usually after several experiments.In this way , the idea of grandparents remaining close to us has been found to be a blessing.
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All of us know grandparents as symbols of wisdom; they speak from experience and tell us how to go where they have been.They may not be up to date in matters of science and other branches of knowledge, but they would have been through the 'school of hard knocks'.They are usually experts at relationships.Many of us have learnt at their knees things that have saved us pain in later life.It is grandparents who tell us that though money and other symbols of wealth are nice to have, the real values in life are the non-material kind.They themselves had probably discovered this through a life time of pain and sorrow.We often see them trying to make up to their children-our parents-for their having been strict, perhaps even unkind, to them when they were young.As it often turns out, they often try parents us to make up for the mistakes they made in parenting their own children.Being thus close to them ,many of us who listen to them are saved the plain of making the same painful mistakes.
It is unfortunate that ,as part of the modern lifestyle, we are losing contacts with our grandparents.It is just not wise at all, but it is happening all around us, that after five million years of evolution, we are now discarding some of the most beautiful aspects of being a human.Pushing grandparents  out of the scene is one of them.Many of them are being exiled in old folks homes ; where being deprived of something useful to do and of being loved and wanted, they waste away to early ends.One can only hope that the trend will be reversed; if not for the sake of our grandparents-for the sake of the wisdom they have to offer all of us.
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