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[quote=Anonymous]Boomers who help out your children and grandchildren and love having special time with the grandkids: this thread is about something widely observed in the boomer generation, but obviously, it doesn’t apply to every boomer; this thread isn’t about you! Your anecdata doesn’t change the perception. To those of you who are hands-on, involved grandparents, we see you! And we appreciate it and love you. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.

However, there are a lot of people with boomer parents who see a huge difference between how much involvement their parents have with their children versus how involved their own grandparents were with them when they were growing up. That very well may be because their own grandparents were younger when grandchildren came along. It may be because their grandmothers weren’t working outside the home, but their boomer moms still had careers when they became grandmothers. It may be that boomer grandparents have more disposable income than their parents had and so they have more options for entertainment in retirement than spending time with grandchildren.

And finally, to those who say all of their friends help out with their grandchildren: some of them really don’t and just talk like they do to fit in.[/quote]

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