What are grandparents?

Famous quotes containing the word grandparents:

    Part of the pain in leaving our children to go to work is that we miss them, wish we could be with them. We also hate to turn them over to someone who is not identical to us, who will do things, at best, differently—at worst, in ways we don’t believe are good for children. We are up against this whenever we share the care of our children with others—even grandparents or trusted and loved ones.
    Joan Sheingold Ditzion (20th century)

    Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
    Claudette Colbert (20th century)

    It is strange but true that although we may have learned all sorts of important facts while raising our own children, when we become grandparents we still tend to forget a whole lot of things we knew.
    Eda Le Shan (20th century)