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What is the role of grandparents and extended family?
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The parent-child relationship is a bond that lasts a lifetime.
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But other family have important roles to play too.
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Aunts, uncles, cousins, and especially grandparents.
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The relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren is second in emotional importance only to the relationship between parent and child.
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One significant role that grandparents and extended family members play is to provide extra support that children need when parents have to work, care for siblings, or just need a break.
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This can be sharing in childcare duties or just providing support and guidance.
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Healthy relationships with grandparents yield many benefits for children.
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Someone who offers unconditional love.
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A mentor who can help with problems.
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Kindness, humor, and patience.
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Family traditions and learning about life lessons.
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It's important for parents and extended family to agree on their role in their children's lives.
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Grandparents need to remember that they are not the parents and decisions are not theirs to make.
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Grandparents and family who live far away can maintain a close relationship.
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By phone calls, writing letters, Skyping, and emailing between visits.
