PASSION FOREVER

When I was young chap my grandma, now 94 years of age, taught me how treat others. She did not do so by telling me what was right or wrong, but rather by observing how she interacted with people of all ages. She would speak to and carry on with individuals the same way no matter what their age happened to be. Best of all she would make people laugh either along with her, or at something funny she had done. She utilized that laughter in almost all situations in her life. Of course, when things went well it came easy for her but when things were not so great she would still use it as well. It aided her in keep on going and moving forward. When I looked at her care for my grandpa for over two years in their house, when he was in his last stage of cancer, every single day she would make him laugh. She never treated him as if he was sick. She took good care of every need he possessed, but she did it in a nice way that maintained his dignity, in a way that made him feel as if although he cou...

  Common wisdom may suggest that due to their age, grandmothers are not appropriate caretakers for babies and little kids. Of course, they may have years and years of parenting experience from raising their own kids, however  people over 50  simply cannot run as quickly or react as fast as young parents. And they presumably get tired more quickly and must desire to take a load off even more frequently than the most exhausted parent. Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have, in contrast to what people may think, turned that assumption upside-down. It turns out that kids taken care of by a grandmother have half the risk of injury than children taken care of by a daycare center, other relatives, or even the kid's own mother. In other words, if grandma looks after the children, they are much less likely to end up in the paediatrician’s office with a fracture or a case of bleeding. And this decrease in risk is not only with regards to Band-Aids and ...