Showing posts with label Grandchildren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grandchildren. Show all posts

Sunday, 21 September 2025

Dear grandchildren and great grandchildren

Arthur Astrop: When I was young I was always very very busy, with all sorts of interesting and exciting things to do. Just like you right now, in fact! As a result, there was plenty of time to ask questions of my parents, my aunts and uncles, and my grandparents, who would all be around for a very long time yet.

Such questions as ‘Where were you born? Where did you go to school? What subjects were you good at? What subjects did you hate? What was your first job? Where were you in the first world war? How did you meet your partner? And so on. In fact, of course, there was not plenty of time.

While I was still being very busy’, growing up, starting a career, getting married, and becoming a parent, first my grandparents and then my parents died. Too late I realised that there were few, if any, relatives left to answer my questions about their lives.


I would not like this to happen to you. Start to ask questions. 

Start here at Ons Huis. One day it will be too late!

Wednesday, 1 April 2020

Who are grandparents?

✍written by a class of 7-year-olds

👦🏻👧🏻 You'll love it ...

😘Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own.

😘They like other people's children.

😘A grandfather is a man, and a grandmother is a lady!

😘Grandparents don't have to do anything except be there when we come to see them.

😘They are so old they shouldn't play hard or run.

😘It is good if they drive us to the shops and give us money.

😘When they take us for walks, they slow down past things like pretty leaves and caterpillars.

😘They show us and talk to us about the colours of the flowers and also why we shouldn't step on 'cracks.'

😘They don't say, 'Hurry up.'

😘Usually they are fat but not too fat to tie your shoes.

😘They wear glasses and funny underwear.

😘They can take their teeth and gums out.

😘Grandparents don't have to be smart.

😘They have to answer questions like 'Why isn't God married?' and 'How come dogs chase cats?'

😘When they read to us, they don't skip.

😘They don't mind if we ask for the same story over again.

😘Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don't have television because they are the only grownups who like to spend time with us ...

😘They know we should have snack time before bed time.

😘They say prayers with us and kiss us even when we've acted bad.

😘Grandpa is the smartest man on earth!

😘He teaches me good things, but I don't get to see him enough to get as smart as he is.