Relations with Grandparents

Grandparents can be a great help to young parents in all kinds of ways. They can also derive enormous pleasure from their grandchildren. They often as wistfully, "Why couldn't I have enjoyed my own children the way I enjoy my grandchild? I suppose I was trying too hard and feeling only the responsibility".

In may parts of the world grandmothers are considered experts, and a young mother takes it for granted that when she has a question about her baby or needs a little help with him she will ask her mother. When a mother has this kind of confidence in the grandmother, She can get not only advice but comfort. So if you have any doubt first consult your mother or grandmother they will help you.

First baby and Second baby problems

Most first children grow up happy and well adjusted like most second and third and fourth children in a family. But a few of them have a harder time adjusting to the outside world.

A mother is apt to say, "The second baby is so easy. He doesn't cry. He is rarely a serious problem. He plays contentedly by himself, and yet he is so friendly if you go near him." When he's several years older, the mother says, 'The second is such a friendly, outgoing child that everybody just naturally loves him. When were walking down the street, strangers smile at him an stop us to ask how old he is. The only notice the older one afterward, to be polite. You can see that it hurts the older one's feelings. He craves attention much more than the second". Note this point.