Grandparents are important

Have you come across the following lines somewhere?

Dadi amma dadi amma maan jaao

or

Nani teri morni ko mor le gaye

They are two evergreen old Hindi movie songs. Such songs are not made nowadays. Gone is the era of these songs. Gone is the era of huge joint families where a child would get love of more than one grandparent.

With the nuclear families in most of the urban cities, kids don't get enough love and attention of their grandparents. Our kids are missing one of the most beautiful relationships they would probably cherish throughout their lives. Like the way I enjoyed with my grandparents. 

My parents also had a nuclear family throughout. But circumstances were so that me and my brother both got special time with our grandparents. 

Do you also have a nuclear family? Don't worry, most of them have it these days. Plan your time such that your kids get to stay with their maternal as well as paternal grandparents often. 

It has a lot to do with the woman of the family. Usually a woman doesn't get along with her in-laws. But don't forget no woman has ever got along perfectly with her in-laws. That relationship is always meant to be that way, I guess. Its all in the adjustments that you make. These small adjustments would probably go a long way for your child's future.

I have observed that kids who stay with their grandparents often are more confident about being themselves. In fact, they even have good habits and understanding of adjustments. On the other hand, kids who hardly stay with their grandparents are more stubborn and unsecured. 

Grandparents are the second best security agents of children after the parents. Children need quality time and attention and grandparents are the best source of that. Grandparents needs are also similar which can be best fulfilled by innocent kids. I have ten different needs to cater to apart from spending time with my daughter. My husband has a busy job too. The responsibility of growing our daughter well lies with us. But my parents and in-laws have nothing to bother about while enjoying with my daughter. Its like two kids playing with each other. 

So next time your in-laws or parents come to your place or vice versa, just observe your children with them. They are a complete and sustainable relation in themselves. To end, I would like to quote a beautiful sentence by my father-in-law about my daughter-

"She is your principal but my interest."