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Grandparents and Big Emotions: Very Questionable Impartiality

A grandchild's tears have a remarkable ability to turn an otherwise sensible adult into a completely irrational grandparent. Not the I dropped my biscuit cry. Or the outraged howl because someone dared suggest shoes might be required before leaving the house. I mean those enormous little-person emotions that seem far too big for the body trying to contain them. Parents, quite rightly, have a job to do. There are boundaries to hold, behaviour to correct and lessons that cannot

The Intentional Life

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