Advantages Of Grandparenting

Grandparents are our connection to the past, and often the key to our upbringing by guiding, disciplining and advising us. They have valuable life experiences from the past decades of bringing up their own children. Tradition are passed from one generation to another that installs good values and standards to help bring families together and stay connected through festival, bringing member together to celebrate and stay bonded.

In Singapore, with an ageing population, grandparents have a choice of staying in the workforce or become a caregiver to their grandchild providing basic needs that their parents aren’t able to provide to them due to circumstance like abandonment of the child, death of the parent, parent violence or other. The sudden

Usually at this age grandparents will be lethargic and more laid back but when they have the responsibility to look after a their grandchild because the parent has gone to work , they’ll feel more occupied and energetic. When grandparents are caregivers they can teach their grandchildren good values instil good knowledge into

Family forms have distinguished as a result of increased divorce rates and the increased numbers of single-parent families, thereby proliferating the need of parents to rely on extended family support for care of their children. Whom is most likely the grandparents whom has been retired who are not working, as so, they are always at home and available. Several studies has been made to see the effects of grandparents being caregivers on they themselves or on the children as well. There has not been any evidence to prove that grandparents caring for grandchildren has any general negative effects on their health, health behaviours, depression, and self-rated health. However. Shortcomings do occur considering the age of the grandparents.

For example, Grandparents could have short term memory which would cause them to forget certain tasks given by the parents of the children. They may eventually forget to fetch the children from school or forget to prepare their meals at the allocated time. Grandparents at their age may not be able to take care of the young ones as they themselves could be too weak to do much work whereby children are usually pro-active. Also, when grandparents are unable to take care of themselves, it is most likely they are unable to take care of their grandchildren as