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Is your granny also fretful and troublesome?

Wednesday: she's the headach!! She complains all day and criticises everyone. Talks from morning till night
 
Friday: Doctor says do not take excess sugar! She laments! Shut up!!!! Did God not creat sugar? She also tells you that her bathing water isn't hot enough (and that is nearly 100 degrees hot:sad)
 
Sunday: well. She recharges and starts all over again (perhaps a modified version of her trouble for the weeks ahead)
 
Classik said:
Why are almost all granmas a big trouble? You hardly satisfy them. :dunno :confused :shrug :shocked :crying4
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I thought grandparents doted on, and spoiled, their grandkids. I only knew one of my grandparents. I don't remember her spoiling me.
 
My grandmas weren't as bad as all that. My Dad's mom was kinda demanding of him--always wanting him to come over to her house and fix stuff, but that's about it. :)
 
One of my grandmother is 101 years old and still a sweet and selfless person.
The other grandmother is a little demented. Not Alzheimer's, but some other kind of short term memory issue. So she makes the same kind of trouble every day, because she's forgotten what trouble she made the day before. :lol

In all seriousness, maybe elderly people become "difficult" like that because they are in some conflict between their old role of respected father/ mother of the family and their new role of being more and more in need of help? Aging poses a new challenge to their identity and their position in their family, and maybe that's not easy to deal with. It's just like teenage children can be troublesome in the time their identity and role changes from child to adult.
 
One of my grandmas was a perfect woman. She died at 100 or thereabout. No words to describe how good she was. She was like Moses Everyone who knew her praised her and callled her blessed
 
Even if they are troublesome you can't say all that Classik! :o I hope your grandma never sees this. Maybe try, "Cheer up Grandma, your favorite grandchild is here. Do you want to talk about baseball?" All that soccer talk is probably making her like that.
 
Gordon said:
Even if they are troublesome you can't say all that Classik! :o I hope your grandma never sees this. Maybe try, "Cheer up Grandma, your favorite grandchild is here. Do you want to talk about baseball?" All that soccer talk is probably making her like that.
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Not just just her alone...majority of grandmas do strange things.......... It's Christmas, and everyone is coming home. (including the snoring aunt).
 
I just found this:

This is a letter from a mother to a daughter (a son as well).

"My dear girl, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through.

If when we talk, I repeat the same thing a thousand times, don’t interrupt to say:
“You said the same thing a minute ago”... Just listen, please. Try to remember the times when you were little and I would read the same story night after night until you would fall asleep.
When I don’t want to take a bath, don’t be mad and don’t embarrass me. Remember when I had to run after you making excuses and trying to get you to take a shower when you were just a girl?
When you see how ignorant I am when it comes to new technology, give me the time to learn and don’t look at me that way... remember, honey, I patiently taught you how to do many things like eating appropriately, getting dressed, combing your hair and dealing with life’s issues every day...the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through.
If I occasionally lose track of what we’re talking about, give me the time to remember, and if I can’t, don’t be nervous, impatient or arrogant. Just know in your heart that the most important thing for me is to be with you.
And when my old, tired legs don’t let me move as quickly as before, give me your hand the same way that I offered mine to you when you first walked.
When those days come, don’t feel sad... just be with me, and understand me while I get to the end of my life with love.
I’ll cherish and thank you for the gift of time and joy we shared. With a big smile and the huge love I’ve always had for you, I just want to say, I love you... my darling daughter."
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elijah23 said:
I thought grandparents doted on, and spoiled, their grandkids. I only knew one of my grandparents. I don't remember her spoiling me.
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I knew my dad's parents. THey didn't spoil me either - they were not people of great means, retired farmers back when farming did pay as well - no gov't payments to NOT grow crops, etc. .... and both died when I was young, in the late 60's.
 
Mothers side Christians go back at least to my great grandparents
Fathers side 2 generations of preachers.
Great great uncles preachers in many forms from Pentecostal to reform Presbyterianism

A Christian heritage is a wonderful blessing. God is good!

Me personally .. I am this granny! :)
 
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