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[[::Stev0::]]

Am I allowed to gate-crash this thread as a 1st time grandparent? Our daughter just gave birth yesterday to a beautiful baby girl, and I'm now feeling really old at the ripe old age of 54.

I'm sure that we will be providing a mix of financial support, free childcare and a wide range of both welcome and unwanted gifts ( ) for the forseeable future.

Congratulations!

My Dad is an old school Dad; man of few words and very proud, but since becoming a Grandad 5 years ago he's a gooey mess. Apparently it's very different. Enjoy every minute

 

[dav3evans]

You're still a Dad! Just don't let the Grand-ness of your new title go to your head

Congrats! As someone who would be lost without the backup of the Grandparents, thank you for your service!

 

[TommyV]

Am I allowed to gate-crash this thread as a 1st time grandparent? Our daughter just gave birth yesterday to a beautiful baby girl, and I'm now feeling really old at the ripe old age of 54.

I'm sure that we will be providing a mix of financial support, free childcare and a wide range of both welcome and unwanted gifts ( ) for the forseeable future.

Congratulations!!!

 

[fez]

Congratulations!

My Dad is an old school Dad; man of few words and very proud, but since becoming a Grandad 5 years ago he's a gooey mess. Apparently it's very different. Enjoy every minute

I think a lot of parents came from the age of hard knock parenting, especially for the dad who wasn't super hands on and his job was sports. Now they don't have jobs and pressures on them they are magically happy fun grandparents who think its brilliant to spoil your children in ways that would have been unthinkable when they were parents themselves.

 

[Priapus]

11000000%. People go on about childcare as a pure expense; but my girl has benefited so much from "renting full time adult attention" in an environment that is fun, safe; and they feed her. I wouldn't accept a salary equal to what I pay my childcare provider to do what they do; I just couldn't compete even.

100% agree. I am also comparing the service to what we had in South Africa. South African daycares are pretty good. But from what I have seen here, my son is getting so much more value out of it. We also used to have to supply consumables - here we don't.

So yeah, it's stupid expensive; but imho it is worth it and very important for their younger years.

 

[TommyV]

Eldest Daughter turns 2 tomorrow. Honestly, where does the time go????

My phone compiled a ‘one year ago’ thing for my photos, it’s already hard to remember her at that age and all her mannerisms etc at that time. Madness!

 

[TommyV]

I think a lot of parents came from the age of hard knock parenting, especially for the dad who wasn't super hands on and his job was sports. Now they don't have jobs and pressures on them they are magically happy fun grandparents who think its brilliant to spoil your children in ways that would have been unthinkable when they were parents themselves.

This 100%, it is indeed expensive but invaluable from a developmental perspective in so many ways.

My elder daughter was taking her sweet time to start her walking, within 2 weeks at nursery she had it nailed!