New grandparents

Grandparents of the twenty-first century no longer have much to do with previous generations! Tag your image of authoritarian grandfather and grandmother instructor of morals and manners: the grandparents of today are young in their heads and full of vitality!

A new figure of the family

Grandparents now more concerned with their grandchildren, going to meet them at school or in the nanny when parents work late, or keeping them when they go on weekends or holidays .

Longer life expectancy allows them to get much more involved in their relationship with their grandchildren that they will grow up and marry, and they want to build a real relationship with them. Grandparents today and relativize their retirement and live their old age in a more serene, doing projects and taking full advantage of gaiety made by their grandchildren.

A stronger link

Thanks to this proximity, the new grandparents share more things with their grandchildren, creating a complicity between the two generations. But strengthening the bond between grandparents and grandchildren is also due to the fact that they have managed to stay young at heart. Leaving authority at the parents they aspire to a more flexible, giving way to the games of all kinds to the point of falling themselves in childhood: the grannies playing with dolls and grandfathers hid in the bushes are now very many!

The new grandparents are more connected than their ancestors, making efforts to update regarding the new lifestyle. While previous generations have been slow to accept the microwave, the grandparents of the twenty-first century began to Internet without difficulty. They finally focus more on interests of their grandchildren, not hesitating to watch Dora the Explorer to understand the cause of so much enthusiasm!