10 Ways to Make Visits from Your Grandchildren Go Smoothly Focus on preparation and keep expectations low to keep everyone happy when your grandchildren visit. When is the last time your grandchildren visited? For many of us, it’s been well over a year. For some of you, your new grandbaby has never been a visitor to your home! Now that more and more of us are vaccinated and summer is approaching, many of us are looking forward to summer visits from our children and grandchildren. It’s time to think about what we can do to make sure everyone enjoys the visit—or at least departs without swearing never to return! First, keep your expectations realistic. Yes, there will be hugs and funny faces and love flowing all day long. But there will also be crying, and small bodies whacking you behind the knees when you least expect it, and crumbs and stickiness everywhere. There will be parents having bad moments, and children having worse ones. It will not be a small slice of heaven. There will be wonderful memories made, but it will be hard work for all the adults in the house. What can you do to make more memories and less hard work? Parents want you to know that each of the following will make their, and consequently your, life easier:
Make an effort now to make stays at your house as easy as possible for the parents. This will ensure that visits will continue long into the future. Think of it as investment: As your grandchildren get older, visits will be more and more rewarding for you.
Do you have other suggestions to make visits go smoothly? Share them in the comments!
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Candy and Tiffany, Like A Sister LLC
5/15/2021 04:41:49 pm
We are parents of little kids and absolutely love this list (we’ll be sharing it with our clients to share with THEIR parents). One suggestion is to offer to watch the kids so their parents can go out - for any length of time; it doesn’t have to be a big production. Many of us haven’t had childcare for the last year, and the opportunity to grab coffee alone or eat dinner with our partner while we are visiting would be amazing! We promise we won’t ask any questions about how many desserts you served the kids :-p
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