grandparenting A brief history of parenting and grandparenting BY RICHARD AND LINDA EYRE
P arents and Grandparents have vintage. Up until post-WWII America, “parent” was simply a name for someone who had a child, and “grandparent” was the noun for that parent’s parent. Neither word was used much as a verb, and the notion of putting always existed, but putting an “ing” on them is something of recent
“ What is fascinating to us is that Grandparenting now seems to be on the cusp of a similar kind of evolution and development.
an “ing” at the end so the word meant a skill or an art or science had not occurred to many people.
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