Someone contacted me recently, asking me, as a grandparent, would I please explain why their children's grandparents had behaved in a way, that had, had devastating consequences.
No, of course I couldn't.
Maybe I need to say, again, that there are some grandparents who should not have any contact with their grandchildren, equally there are some parents who should have nothing to do with their children.
It is a minority of people.
Each case is different.
The common denominator here is the children.
When there are articles in newspapers written about grandparents, I often make the mistake of reading comments written about them.
The hatred that comes through only too often, by the children of the 'grandparents,' is astonishing.
Where did it go so wrong?
We can say that when we were children our family life was not as it should have been, for a variety of reasons. We may have suffered in an uncaring family unit, but when are we going to stop blaming our past for the here, now and future?
Someone has to stop the continuum of blame.
Otherwise, the children grow up carrying on that hatred.
Jane.
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