Ready to Learn Something New

There is no limit to the activities that grandparents and grandchildren can share. Favorites tend to be: days out at museums or the park, simply spending time with them without feeling what most parents experience. But the pressure rise when doing something else without grandchildren

Learning about the past is a key thing that grandparents and grandchildren can do together. I know from my own childhood how much I enjoyed hearing my grandparent’s stories. But grandparents can also pass on important life skills to help children become more independent, like cooking and money management.

Some Grandparents have special skills that they can share with their grandchildren. If grandparents knows mathematics, plays the piano, knows how to paint - then it seems very natural for them to share what they know with grandchildren who show even a small amount of interest. But rarely grandparents share something else besides a specific skill. They share with their grandchildren their own desire to always be learning something new.

Grandparents do not like to live in the corner of house but often like to spend time with children. Modern technology such as Skype, webcams on laptops and PCs, mobile phones and Facebook mean grandparents have a range of ways to keep in touch with children. Many have overcome a lack of enthusiasm to use computers if it means more contact with their grandchildren.

There are benefits of close contact. Children who have a grandparent involved in their care are less likely to be taken to accident and emergency and teenagers who spend more time with their grandparents become more sensitive and considerate to others.

Grandchildren love to learn things from their grandparents. But in modern societ other way around also may work. In today's world grandchildren can teach their grandparents how to use the computer, ipod, dvd player, even cell phone.