Everyone makes mistakes: children, their parents, and grandparents. The latter often believe that their experience can be useful in raising their grandchildren.
Sometimes their advice is the opposite of what parents say. Sometimes it is downright harmful.
Experts have collected phrases that grandparents would do well not to say in the presence of their grandchildren.
1. When grandparents start to speak negatively about their grandchild’s parents, saying that they don’t understand anything about parenting.
In fact, the opinion of mom and dad is decisive for any child, and grandparents make their grandchildren a party to the conflict.
2. For some grandparents, the child's nutritional status still remains an indicator of health and well-being.
But if parents understand that a child eats as much as he can, then this still needs to be explained to the older generation.
3. Raising grandchildren by personal example is also not the most interesting idea.
At the very least, not all pensioners follow the labor market and can give good advice on choosing a specialty, studying, choosing an educational institution, etc.
4. And grandparents are also very fond of imposing behavior patterns that will not be easy for the child to escape from in the future.
And all because of the role in society, mainly related to gender differences.
5. And the older generation is also very offended and does not always react adequately if a grandson or granddaughter turns out to be more knowledgeable on a particular issue.
At the same time, grandparents use the ironclad argument “adults know better.”
Earlier we talked about the mistakes parents make that will push their child away.
