Is it true that being grandparents is more enjoyable than being a parents?

Ya already said it being a parent I never got to go out much for taking care of kids and we moved so much never really knew anyone I would trust to leave my kids a few hours with I beleive I only had 2 babysitters in the 15 years before they were really old enough to stay home by thier selves. Now I am still in the same boat as my grand daughter lives here with me mom and dad. But we have to get a babysitter so we all can go out at once. If they arent avalibal I end up takeing care of her so mom and dad can go out and thats every other week.

I am not sure if that is true or not since I am not a grandparent yet. I know it sure is hard raising your own child. It is hectic at times also. I think grandparenting will be more relaxed since we will not have to make the decisions for the child all of the time like we do with our own children.

I think being grandparents will always be more enjoyable than being parents.. haha =D For the stress level is lesser, and it's more like passing time, in taking care of grandchildren, rather than seeing it as responsibility and duty.. haha =D PLus, as grandparents, we tend to spoil grandchildren but parents wont do that.. And grandparents see their grandchildren, as their own personal sense of achievement in life, because it's their 2nd generation down the line.. hehe

I do think so and it is only sad as I was born later years that i have not seen my grandparents. But my parents have their own grandchildren and they both enjoy the kids company they both play and stay so long having a good time.

i saw it many times as grandparents have more time to spend with their grandchildren compare to parents being busy with their work. sometimes parents are gone for too long they could not assist to the need of their children, the responsibilities fall on grandparents hand.

HI neelianoscet, you are absolutely right my grandparents are very enjoyable than my parents don't know why but i really enjoy even i am in teen age but yet my nana ji listening the chapters of gita,i like to spend whole day with my nana ji than friends.my nana ji is my great friend i am very reserve in my life and i have no more friends because i think i never feel need to a of a friend.

I'm a gramma and I absolutly love it. I loved being a mom too, but being a mom you have all the responsibilities that go along with it. You have to do everything. You don't have the time to just have fun and love them. Your a wife, homemaker, cook, you have laundry, work-the list goes on and on. Being a gramma all that other stuff can wait. Once you get past raising the kids, you have time to smell the roses. Thats when the grandkids come along, perfect timing. I once was doing something wit the grandkids, having a good ole time. My son was looking on and smiling. I said to him-I'm sorry. He said for what, I said for not doing this with you when you were little. Being a mom and being a gramma is different, I would have to say being a gramma is probably more enjoyable. Its not a 24 hr. 7 day a week job. You get to take a breather. Plus I think as much as your kids love you, the grandkids love you more. At least they show it to you more.

I have head many grandparents saying the same thing. As grandparents they enjoy seeing their grandchildren and probably love them more than their own children. I have no grandchildren yet so do not know what the feelings are like.

I thoughroly enjoyed raising my kids....did it as a single father when they were teens actually....wouldn't have traded it for the world. It was a privilge. Grandchildren however are a whole new world. I think it's not only the "revenge" factor, lol...but just something of a milestone. Watching your babies raise their own babies is a feeling you can't describe, it's an acomplshment. Besides, you can sugar grandkids up and send them home to mom...lol.

Hi neelianoscet, I am now a grandparent and enjoy it but I also enjoyed being a parent. I know that it's often said that you can give the grandchildren back to their parents and don't have to worry about responsibility, but I don't agree with that. When my grandchildren are with me I'm responsible for them. Being older it can be very enjoyable to spend time with children and I think we have often learned enough not to take certain things as serious as we did with our own children. Blessings.

its because grandparnets will and should spoil the grandkids and even allow them to get anyway with more then send them home. because i know my grandparnets would allow me to get away with more then my own parents and when my kids was little and growing up my parents did the samething too, spoiled my kids and sent them home. i know when i get to see my grandsons or neices and nephews they come here they dont ask their parents about having cookies or candy, even drawing they ask me they know i wont say no. my one friend will tell thier kids one cookies, but know i will give them two or three lol. and once my best friend came over and wasnt planning to stay long and his girls was like i want to see uncle yankee lights. so i brought them in so they can see my christmas tree.

My mother didn't want to look after my son.My wife and i quarraled many times about this.There do have some people do not love their grandchildren.

it is depend on the family situation and realtions in parentsa and their children..

yes, i have a really strick mother. but my kids have a really soft grandmother.

I am not a grandparent yet because my daughter is only eight years old so with a bit of luck I have a bit of a way to go! My best friend though has just become a grandmother and she loves it! She has two grown sons that she brought up pretty much singlehandedly and her new grandson is a joy to her; she says that the bond is similar but it is wonderful to just enjoy the grandkids and then hand them back to their parents, in other words she gets all the good bits of parenting only!

That's true. Grandparents have more fun rearing grandchildren than they did when they were still rearing their kids. Perhaps this is because as grandparents most of them are already retired or they are already enjoying life because they have passed the period of countless responsibilities. Grandparents aren't the direct parents who deal with children's behaviors and all the responsibilities so they are at least not so pressured as compared to the time when they were still parents. The situation determines why grandparents enjoy rearing grandchildren.

I love being a parent and a grandmother. I like doing things with my kids and grand babies every time I get the chance to. I spoil my kids and there babies not just the grand babies. My daughters love being mothers and they do great at raising there first child. I am proud of them. I think when I keep my grand babies over night it reminds me of when my kids were little all over again. I no we all try to not make mistakes when we are raising are own kids. But everyone is different in how they act around there kids and grand babies. I treated my kids and grand babies all the same. I love them and adore them all very much.

am still a parent only but i have a degree in pyschology and i think it is the fact that grandparents have lesser responsibilities on their grandchildren. bringing up one's kids and having the stress of bringing food on the table is quite enough for any human coupled with the knowledge that whatever your child would turn out to be would naturally be reflected on the kinds of parents that child has. none of these rests on the shoulders of many grandparents.

hi neeli, how are you, long back we met eachother,, ok, yeah, in every family the kids were with grandparents is more enjoybale than being a parents, because, they won't say anything like parents.. even in my family also, my mils won't say anything to my kids, whatever they did.. actually i am not prefer that. they should teech, what is good and bad. kids will listen them right.so, they should teech everything. thankyou, have a nice day.

My mom and dad swear that if they knew grandkids could be so much fun then they would have had them first. LOL. Grandkids are spoiled rotten and then sent home for their parents to deal with. The decipline that my parents hand out to the grandkids is way different then the way they were with me. My dad once told my oldest son that if his little brother didn't stop picking on him to let him have it, when I was growing up if I had let my sister have it I would have been grounded for months.