Relating the theory to the theme of these notes, what a grandparent gets back often depends to the value he or she places on, and the efforts he or she makes toward building positive intergenerational relationships.
Then, as the grandparent ages, communicating with the distant grandchild retains its strength as a positive force, and enriches the remaining years.
As elders, they will reflect on their lives and, with a perspective vastly different from their youth and middle years, recall that Grandpa, in his advanced years, had tried to reach out to them as a grandparent in deed as well as in name.
Too-Faraway Grandparent During a talk I gave to a senior citizens group a woman in the audience remarked, 'I'm a volunteer helper in a class of first graders at (naming a nearby school.
The grandchild chose the grandparent over television and the many other forms of professionally polished commercial entertainment that thrusts forward for his or her attention.
We see this clearly when hybrids are paired inter se, for the characters of eithergrandparent often reappear, either perfectly or by segments, in the progeny.
In many cases the failure of the parents to transmit their likeness is due to the breed having been at some former period crossed; and the child takes after his grandparent or more remote ancestor of foreign blood.
We have {55} already seen that the transmission of a character from the grandparent to the grandchild, with its apparent omission in the intermediate parent of the opposite sex, becomes simple on this view.
I am not here to seek medical assistance for a grandparent who succumbed to disappointment that time when Samuel J.
The old woman was dying slowly of old age, aided by the peculiar hardship of her long life; she had not left her bed for some time, and the young woman could see that her aged grandparent was not long for this world.
It is often the partial affection of the grandparent for the grandchild that makes a new tie in family love and enables that family love to grow wiser as well as stronger.
It is, however, often a necessity of financial provision and often a choice of ease in ministration to the needs of the aged, that brings one grandparent or even two within the daughter's or son's household.
It is often the grandparent who sees what the different life of his or her children have meant to the still greater difference in the condition of the grandchild, and can interpret to the latter the reason for the restraint of the parent.
In modern researches the conception of mid-parent and mid-grandparent as utilized by Galton has been largely abandoned.
Thus it is well known that as regards one or more characteristics a child may resemble a grandparent or often some remote ancestor much more closely than it does its immediate parent.
I thought we might winter in the Isle of Wight, but grandfather was for Cornwall and conger-fishing, so we pushed onwards to Fowey, and arrived there shortly after Christmas, when my grandparent was about fifteen.
Such attachment and devotion to a suffering grandparent will not be forgotten.
The inheritance of ancestral traits from grandparent or great-grandparent might be accounted for by supposing that some of the gemmules remained latent to develop in the second or third generation.
Moreover, it is adapted to the tastes of almost any age, from ten to ninety, and may be read aloud by grandchild to grandparent as suitably as by grandparent to grandchild.
He was obliged to converse with them through his wife or child, by addressing the latter and requesting him or her to ask the grandparent for the desired information.
Then the grandparent used to tell the man's wife or child to say so and so to the man.
I was afraid she would get on the grandparent subject, and I didn't want to hear it.
The bride and groom were the stock, the grandparent and maiden aunts were the thickening, and I was the seasoning; but all that does not matter now.
He felt almost a pitying condescension toward this provincial grandparent who seemed to think his little piles of "two by fours" so important.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandparent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ancestor; parent; progenitor; relative
