Grannies these days often do not fit the traditional mold. No longer is granny confined to the kitchen baking cookies non-stop and calling every one dearie. Sure, baking cookies can be fun for everyone, but grannies who call you dearie might just be as sarcastic as a teenager. Modern, hip grannies are rocking the world and declaring their rights. These days, getting older doesn’t have to mean becoming docile. In fact, grannies understand better than younger generation that acting as everyone expects you to isn’t really as important as it seems.
Getting older is something that is so feared in this society that people spend massive amounts of money trying to pretend they’re thirty years younger. Yet many modern grannies are proud of their years and the wisdom they’ve acquired. They don’t necessarily go out to the discos in a desperate attempt to seem young, but won’t let themselves be sentenced to the rocking chair either.
Growing older doesn’t have to be a curse, and many grannies don’t despair about their age but value a life well lived and are determined to keep enjoying being alive and spending time with their grandchildren. Modern grannies may browse the net and carry a cell phone. They may still work, part time or full time, or may volunteer somewhere. There is no need to stop being active as the years pile on, and many modern grannies have been blasting away at the common stereotypes, though they might still spoil their grandchildren now and then.
четверг, 23 апреля 2009 г.
вторник, 3 марта 2009 г.
Grannie Story
The grannies stories of yesterday are still just as captivating as they were when you were a child. Unfortunately in today’s world we have sort of tossed aside the wisdom of the grannies in exchange for our own ideas. We have become literally disrespectful to the aging and we have chosen to hide them away as far from us as possible. Very few of the elderly have had the gracious offer to stay in the family’s home. People have become too busy to look after the grannies of the world and instead have charged their care to strangers, for a rather high price.
What about this is unsettling? We all tend to feel an overwhelming sense of guilt when we opt for extended care for our grannies rather than feel a sense of relief. If we truly feel this guilt then how are we sure we are doing the right thing? Is the guilt just a way we believe we are supposed to feel when we take the elderly to a residential care facility or do we really actually feel this sense of guilt? If we are feeling it then why go through with it when it can be less expensive to hire in home care for an aging family member. If we follow our hearts and we use our heads, we can make a decision without feeling guilty about it, and in most cases the grannies of the world understand and take on their new surroundings with a sense of self pride.
What about this is unsettling? We all tend to feel an overwhelming sense of guilt when we opt for extended care for our grannies rather than feel a sense of relief. If we truly feel this guilt then how are we sure we are doing the right thing? Is the guilt just a way we believe we are supposed to feel when we take the elderly to a residential care facility or do we really actually feel this sense of guilt? If we are feeling it then why go through with it when it can be less expensive to hire in home care for an aging family member. If we follow our hearts and we use our heads, we can make a decision without feeling guilty about it, and in most cases the grannies of the world understand and take on their new surroundings with a sense of self pride.
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