Children keep shouting out loud, we are listening.

Since 2007 I have listened to well over a thousand grandparents, I live through their heartbreak, hurt and pain. I have listened to litres of tears shed and held many hands in so many very dark moments.
I despair at the hurt other family members inflict on one another, in some cases for years for a variety of reason parents and grandparent face pure hell of not being able to see their beloved children and grandchildren.
In the middle of all this chaos, are the innocent victims, the children.
When we have children we have a life long responsibility to them, to look after them, to support them through the ups and downs of life. We do not have a right over them, children are the world of the future. If they are embroiled in the disgraceful way some adults around them behave they have been emotionally abused and it is the adults in their lives that have let them down and betrayed their trust.
As a Mum and Grandmother I am truly ashamed of the parents who use children in this vicious way.
Out of darkness there is always light.
Today is one of those beautifully, bright days.
Grandchildren are shouting out loud and their voices are being listened to.
Just a few hours spent at their request with grandparents they love, grandparents who have never, ever stopped loving them, grandparents who have never stopped waiting.
I personally can not put into words how it feels to walk alongside grandparents when they are so low, so unhappy, to then, witness their utter elation when their grandchildren walk back through their door, as though they have never been away.
It is tears of sheer joy that are flowing today.
Bless everyone.
Jane
www.bristolgrandparentssupportgroup.co.uk