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Grandparenting Is Nature’s Revenge

Astonishing fact about being a grandparent No. 23: After decades of your children doing exactly what you've told them not to do, rebelling against your core values and tossing your counsel to the wind, suddenly your grown children want you to be an influence on their children's lives. I guess it's part of the realization that comes to every new parent that you really don't know what in the heck you are doing. You can read books, consult experts, go to classes, but kids just have a way of making your best efforts look foolish and futile.From the grandparent's point of view, pay backs are sweet. None of us likes to see our children suffer through parenthood the way we did when we were raising those little twerps. But, really, don't they have it coming?/Kathy Hedberg, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Do you enjoy seeing your children struggle with the same parenting problems that you did?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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