They can receive support, encouragement, and companionship from their grandchildren and children. Attitudes about aging. Children who have an opportunity to get to know older people develop positive attitudes toward aging. If your grandchildren do not live nearby, arrange visits and offer to be a substitute grandparent to youngsters in your community. Learning history and cultural values.
Children learn best from people who have experienced the history they are teaching.
This means that grandparents make excellent history teachers. It has been found that children pay better attention to grandparents than they do to television or other media. Plus, information learned from grandparents tends to encourage youngsters to think about values and traditions. Grandparents and teenage parents. Studies of teenage parents and their children indicate that the child and mother have better physical and emotional health when they remain in the grandparent's home.