Babysitting Tips for Grandparents

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Picture this: Your oneyear- old grandchild is afflicted with cough and fever for the umpteenth time. Your daughter has used up her annual leave down to the last day, ferrying the little one to and from the doctor.

Now your daughter goes to the maid’s room to tell her what to prepare for the day’s dinner, only to find out that she’s gone. Your daughter makes a frantic call to the maid’s agent who says the earliest she could get a replacement is in a couple of weeks’ time. Your daughter has a crucial meeting with a client that morning that could make or break her career. What’s her backup?

If she’s like many other parents with little kids, chances are she’d pick up the phone and call the person most likely to not mind caring for her baby: YOU.

Grandparents are much sought after to babysit these days for a variety of reasons: maids who pack up and leave without notice leaving working parents with young kids in the lurch; exorbitant costs of hiring maids; parents who are simply exhausted and need a break from their little ones.

Time and again, grandparents come to the rescue willingly or otherwise. Interestingly, grandparents in general seem to have a soft spot for their grandkids. I personally have heard of these comments: “It’s a strange feeling I felt the minute I saw my newborn granddaughter. I was just overwhelmed with this love. I know it sounds strange, but it’s as if I loved her more than her father – my own son!”

Fondness aside, you and your own children – in other words, your grandkids’ parents – belong to different generations and inevitably there’ll be differences in the way you view and do things.




Ageing Gracefully

The Malaysian Future

Your View

 

by Jamilah Samian

Finally a magazine for Senior Citizens has come to the newsstand for the public to read. There are many reading materials published for children, teenagers, men and women and now, it is time to publish one for our golden people.

Although this magazine is meant for the Senior Citizens, the articles contributed are for the benefit of all. All are welcomed to write, contribute, participate and comment. This is the inaugural issue and is packed with a lot of information, activities, events, health tips, interviews and biographies. Wisdom comes with age.

Likewise, senior citizens’ expertise, knowledge and advice are valuable assets to the younger generation. Aging is not only a seniority of calendar years but also an accumulation of wisdom. As we progress technologically, the humanitarian aspect of helping people should not be forgotten.

Progression of arts and science is the acquisition and execution of knowledge and progression of age is the combination of perseverance, righteousness and sense control which produces wisdom. Age is not confined to numbers; aging is a biological process not a psychological one. So long as your psyche is strong, you do not age.

“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.” - James A. Garfield