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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't like this anti family culture being fostered by millennial / genx parents. The question should be how do I encourage my teens to still make time for their grandma while encouraging their developing independence.

This eff off grandma culture is really not normal. For us much as DCUM likes to pretend to be cosmopolitan and preaches modeling our home life after other cultures they ignore that in most of the world these intergenerational bonds are vital.[/quote]

Grandma was part of the ME generation and it's so visible whether it's the grandparents who want to spend their whole time just traveling around and not being with family or grandparents who insist on everything their way. Why can't grandma figure out a good time to see her family?[/quote]

In other cultures grandmas are not putting themselves first. The whole support goes to younger generation, and the life revolves around children, because they are the future. Somehow here grandma is number 1 and who cares about anyone else. This idea that we should dance around the old generation on the account of everybody else is completely foreign to the rest of the world. I'm saying this as an immigrant. The eff grandma culture is the logical outcome of grandmas not willing to give up the reins. [/quote]

I come from an old WASP family and I can say that the grandma obsessed culture ain't normal from our perspective either.

Yes, honor your elders, but no need to bend your whole life for them, especially if it means stunting your own development.

Grandmother should be supportive of her grandkids growing up, not thinking how she can get them to focus on her more.[/quote]

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