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all the love of parenting, none of the bedtime jurisdiction, plus a getaway car.
means The state of being a grandparent — having a child who has had a child of their own, with all the affection and none of the daily responsibility that implies.
from A stack of plain English parts. 'Grand-' here means 'one generation removed' — borrowed from French 'grand' (great/large), which is why a grandmother is literally a 'great mother' in the genealogical sense. 'Parent' comes from Latin 'parens,' from 'parere,' to bring forth or give birth. Tack on '-hood,' an old Germanic suffix (Old English 'hād') meaning state or condition — the same one in childhood and brotherhood — and you get the condition of being a grandparent.
- grandmother hypothesis
- long-lived grannies may explain human menopause itself
- sugar diplomacy
- spoiling is a legal loophole parents cannot prosecute
- orca elders
- post-menopausal orcas lead pods to food
- deep roots
- grandparenting predates agriculture by tens of thousands of years
- return policy
- the crying child goes back to its rightful owner
queen elizabeth ii — became a grandparent in 1977 when prince william's father prince charles had children
jimmy carter — former us president who became a grandparent and remained active in grandparenting into his 90s