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Grandparent
* Many grandparents find it difficult when their child or grandchild chooses another religion
  - have strong, traditional cultural ties to their heritage
  - live into their grandchildren's adulthood
  - provide childcare for their grandchildren
* Most grandparents assume grandchildren
  - become caretakers
* Most grandparents begin their grandparenting role during their middle age
  - role during middle age
  - can have life
  - experience death
  - express pain
  - find themselves living far from their children and grandchildren
  - give children
* Most grandparents have beneficial and healthy relationships with their grandchildren
  - improve ability
* Most grandparents know fatty food
  - live in cities
* Most grandparents pass few years
  - receive terminal diagnoses
  - relate to grandchildren
  - see their grandchildren regularly and connect in a number of ways
  - start out alert when their grandchildren first come over
  - teach grandchildren
* Some Grandparents are the newage caretakers of young children of their children.
* Some grandparents are on their third group of children
  - become children
  - choose to adopt their grandchildren
  - establish trusts for their grandchildren
  - give grandchildren
  - go to medical and other appointments with their children and grandchild
* Some grandparents have burdens
  - little interest in pursuing relationships with their grandchildren
  - uplift effects
  - take children
* affect the lives of their grandchildren, for good or ill, simply because they exist.
* also have an important role to play, as do other members of the extended family
  - help raise young children while the parents are at work
  - provide children with a connection to the family's past
* are a key component to how families communicate
  - source of constant support to grandchildren of any age
  - also more likely to communicate with extended members such as aunts and uncles
* are important members of the family network
  - parts of everyone s lives
  - role models for children, even when they live far away
  - often responsible for their grandchildren
  - one of children's fastest-growing income sources
  - responsible for child's supervision
  - special people with wisdom and pride
  - storehouses of information about family history
* are the connection between the past and the future
  - one of the nicest things to have for children
  - responsibility
  - people seen at holidays or major events such as graduation or weddings
* can be a blessing when raising children
  - point of stability in a changing world
  - role model to show grandchildren that older people can be fun
  - sign of stability in a world of constant change
  - effective role models of how to cope with stress for their grandchildren
  - so special and important in a child's life
* can be the best friends parents and children have
  - most important people in a child's life
  - communicate a sense of wonder to children
  - fill an important psychological role in the child's development
  - give love and attention within the rules and limits of parents
  - many roles in the lives of their children and grandchildren
* can help children bridge the gap between the past and present
  - feel secure and loved
  - cushion the stress and demands of modern day parenting
* can provide love and a sense of family
  - warmth and care to younger children on top of the love given by parents
  - save for grandchildren
  - share history and family traditions
* contract diseases
  - fatal diseases
  - emotion
* feel numbnesses
  - protective numbnesses
* have a crucial role in the raising of children
  - vital role to play in family life
  - joys
  - time
  - wisdom and experience to share, and children are sponges for learning
* help children to know, trust and understand other people.
  - cytoplasm
  - heads
  - nuclei
* is an ancestor
* know a lot more about life than parents, because they have lived longer
* maintain attitude
  - benevolent attitude
* may have energy
  - illnesses
* often adopt their grandchildren if the parents die while the children are minors
  - look after their grandchildren while parents are at work
* play a role in determining whether holidays make family history or family hassles
  - an important but usually indirect role in the lives of their grandchildren
* play an important role in a family
  - our lives
  - large roles
* possess quality.
* provide care.
* receive diagnoses
* represent all socioeconomic and ethnic groups.
* show pictures.
* support a child's development by unconditional love
* take care.
* talk to grandchildren.
* to become grandparents
  - give advice
  - understand difficulty