Is it true that grandparents love their grandchildren more than their own?

Yes, grandparents have unconditional love and they do not expect anything from their grand children. But with their own children it is a diffrent cae all together. They bring up their children with an expectation that they will support them and look after them...

its true that grandparents love grandchildren more and its natural i think,grandparents comes in a age where they are weak and get more childish and also they start liking the innocent things done by their grandchildren,its like the doing simple and best thing before the life get end.they find their past in their grandchildren like how they grew their children and grandchildren also remembles to their children so they see their own children in them and feel that time when they were having the kids and but they don't get too angry on the stupid thing they were angry on their own children.so its a very sweet relation and i really feel this very closely.

Well I am not a Grandparent yet either lol but I think what they mean by this is that it is a different Love from their own Children, not that they love the Grandchildren more it is a totally different kind of love and just as intense I have always been told Grandchildren are there to be spoilt lol well that means I will be the same with them as I was with my 2 to a certain extend, they got spoilt but also rectified and are 2 wonderful Adults today

I don't think grandparents love their grandchildren more than their own children. Although I have witnessed grandparents protect their grandchildren from their own parents because they don't want them punished even though they did terrible things and deserve punishment. I think it's more of the parents going soft as they grow older. They also no longer feel solely responsible for the rearing of the small kids. They are clearly aware that their parents would be the strict guardians so they know that they can dote on their grandchildren without restrictions :)

I have heard this to so many times before becoming a grandparent and guess what its so true. My granddaughter is my precious little one that I treasure everyday. I think it has alot to do with when my kids were younger I had to work and provide and it was always very stressful. Now with my granddaughter life can still be stressed but its a different type of stress and my granddaughter can just talk to me and put a smile on my face. I also think we as grandparents become more relaxed as we get older and have time to sit and play more so with their grandkids.

Ya it is true. And there is a big secret behind this. I know about this behavior of grandparents right from my childhood. And I can explain why this happens. Whenever our grandparents see us, they get reminded of our parents childhood days. they will think how good our parents were, and how they have changed now. And in some cases, our parents would sometime ignore their words. But, when we are kids, our grandparents, are the most beloved in our sight, we hear stories from them, we spend our holidays in their house. Our grandparents will think us similar to their child, except that we are now nearer to them, and they are not. So they show more care to us, than they did to our parents.

I think yes, watching my grand mother loving her grandkids feels like they like them more than their own kids. I have many times heard my mom and uncles saying that my mother loves my kids more than us. Thats sad but sweet of them too.

I think it's true to some extent. I think parents are more strict on their own children because they have the responsibility of teaching them morals and raising them right but all grandparents need to do is love their grandchildren. That's certainly how it is with my grandparents

I love my grandchildren but not more than our children. It is true that grandparents are free to indulge the grandchildren and then, send them home to their parents for correction. In that manner, grandchildren are a lot more fun than children. I know that I brag more about our grandchildren than I did about our 2 children. Maybe that's because we have more than twice as many grandchildren as children.

I am a six time grandmother with the 7th due any hour now! The feeling for our grandchildren is very different. I believe alot of the reason is that we don't have all the responsibility we had with our children. We are able to relax and enjoy our grandchildren much more. I don't think so much we love our grandchildren more, just more able to enjoy the time we spend with them.

I think of this differently now that i became a grandparent 7 months ago. With a grandchild its a free will sorta thing , its just different . You know you are in the childs life to basically enjoy them and guide them. With your own child you was always needing to be everything to meet every need they had 24/7. With grandchild you know his or her parents will be responsible for meeting the basic needs and you can focus on the important things. Love being a grandma

I am not also a grandparent yet but i have observed from my parents that they really love their grandchildren more than they loved us. They are more caring than they are to us. I think thats really true because i have seen other grandparents doing the same.

ya i also agree with you that all grandparents yet but they always like her grandchildren than their own child.

I do not think that grandparents love their grandchildren more than their children, but that grandparents are in a different place than parents.As a parent I am directly responsible for my children's day to day world and see all of their behavior. My parents, although they see my children a few times a week, do not have to pay attention to or worry about their grandchildren's behavior. They are not the ones that have had no sleep, because my 2 month old wanted to cry all night, they are the ones that get the visit from the beautiful sleeping baby. Grandparents also tend to be in a different financial place, which gives them more of an opportunity to spoil grandchildren.

I feel it is true that grandparents love their grand children more than their own. I have experienced this with my grand parents. It is probably because the children show more affection towards them as the grand parents are the ones who take care when we are very young and give us what we require. Parents tend to restrict their children and the grand parents protect them. Hence there is a special bondage between the aged parents and their grand children. lol..

It is not true that grandparents love their grandchildren than their children. It is only that as parents you tied up with all responsibilities alongwith bringing up the children but as grandparents they are enjoy all the activities of the child as they are free in their retired life and are not tied up with all the duties of their grandchild. So they take more pleasure in playing and also pampering the child. It may look as if they are more inclined to their grandchildren to an onlooker. But in reality it is not so. I can vouch for this as a grandparent. Happy mylotting.

Hello moneymaking today this is checkmail and me too am missing mine grandparent very much can't define it.Yeah mine grandparents were mine fav persons in my life.Both used to have close realationship with me, share everything with me.Actually think its the good feeling about the grandchildrens that they are the infants of their own son and daughters.Well me too enjoyed a lot within the company of mine grandparents, used to play with them share every secret, pro, knowledge with them, and think they to did.Even they were like mine teachers to me, as got lots of knowledge from them, than mine parent did gave me.I love mine grandpaents and miss them very very much.

Yes I feel that grandparents love their grandchildren more, but it does not mean that their love towards their own children have become less. They love grandchildren more because they are our children whom they have loved and will love all along their life and are so happy to see that we have gifted them with children.

yes really nice topic which made me to rememeber my grandmother but it's fact that they love more becoz i am the example where they should me more love than on thier children i:e on my mother

yes it is true that grandparents love their grandchildren more than their one. its natural that comes when they are on that age,as there is saying that as you grow older you become childish.When they are older they are free and wants to spend their life with the kide and they also become kids with them.