DAs soon as they knew their children were going to become parents, they were in the starting blocks. And then, when they prepared to take up their duties as grandparents, their ardor was calmed by their own offspring.
There is no question of being able to look after their grandchildren until their home is more secure and they have not committed to not turning on the television, not giving protein in the evening or not cooking mash to the pesticides.
Welcome to the era of grandparents on borrowed time, those who believed they were capable of taking care of little ones as they had already raised three, but whose skills no longer seem to be recognized – a bit like foreign diplomas which would no longer be recognized. not validated outside their borders, here generational.
With their grandchildren, they thought they would make up for the time they had not spent with their children, but they do not see it that way. These young parents brought up on positive education are wary of those supposed to represent negative education, forgetting that they did not succeed so badly in theirs.
How do we recognize them?
They expected to teach their knowledge to their children. But it is their offspring, parents for five months, who explain to them how to raise a child. When they manage to get an afternoon with their grandchildren, they have to commit to not having their cousins over at the same time so they don’t get overwhelmed. They had to accept high-tech security equipment (connected watch and other alert devices), lists of instructions, already prepared meals and all kinds of safeguards.
They promised they would read all of Céline Alvarez and the bestseller Hunter, gatherer, parent (by Michaeleen Douclef, Leduc, 2022). They received the schedule until 2025 when they will be able to have their grandson depending on the nanny’s vacation. They don’t dry their hands completely to show that they washed them well before touching the baby. They clean the floor before their children arrive for fear that the little ones won’t be allowed to crawl. They thought they were doing the right thing by putting foam corners on the tables and socket protectors at home, but they have to go to their children’s homes because it is important that their grandson is not destabilized by a change in power. environment and can maintain their habits at daycare.
They watch “8 p.m.” in secret because they promised not to turn on the TV. They thought they would please their children by keeping their old strollers, cribs and playpens for later, but had to pack them up because they were no longer up to standard and had become both liberticides and dust nests. They do not express any criticism for fear that the child will be sent to his other grandparents.
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