CyberGran Grandparents as Mentors for Grandkids. Grandparents have the time to be good mentors to their grandchildren. They have much to give. Be a mentor for your grandchild. Mentor is an excellent role to be filled by a grandparent.
Parents have trouble filling the mentor's role.
Buried in careers, bills, discipline plus the entire socialization process of children, and other decisions, parents have limited time to act as mentors to their children. Grandparents have a lifetime of skills and make good mentors for their grandchildren. Grandparents have the patience to be good mentors to their grandchildren. Long gone is the little red schoolhouse where children had the same teacher for several years. Now children spend their time in school learning from a series of teachers whose teaching methods differ.