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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like a lot of millennials refuse to do the math. When I was small, my grandma was in her 50s. People complaining about lack of help when “my parents’ parents helped them”: how old are your parents? My guess is, substantially older than their parents were when you were born. It’s nobody’s fault. It’s just a societal change. Complaining won’t help. [/quote] I think there a lot of truth to this- my grandma was 50 when I was born! Whereas my own mom was 63 when my first was born. The funny thing is, my mom always complained that my grandma didn’t want to babysit us so that my mom could work. But my grandma was so young (and my mom was the oldest child) that she was still raising kids herself. So it was like the opposite situation that many of ourselves are in today. I think there is a sweet spot where grandparents have “recovered” from raising their own kids but still have a lot of energy to take in a more active role. [/quote]
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