Becoming a grandmother is a wonderful thing if you are ready for it and even if you are not ready to be bestowed with the title. As a grandmother I found out that the job is harder than I imaged. The little people are challenging and competitive and the adult children are more troublesome now than when you raised them yourself. This is a learning lesson that most mothers learn at some point in their life time and its heartwarming and informative for grandmother’s to be. In these pages you can share my journey of the ups and downs of a grandmother and maybe if you are having these same issues you will feel better knowing that we all belong to a club and get the same pouts when we say no to something and use the same psychology when it’s time for bed.
J Elliott-Howard is a native of New York, New York. She holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. She has had a successful career in corporate America. A divorced mother of two adult children and a grandmother of three. Enjoys photography and water color painting. She had been known to always see her glass as half-full instead of empty. She had a very interesting way of relating to people and her peers always seem to gravitate to her idealism. She has always been told that she ought to be an author based on her delivery methods of good, bad or indifferent news. She always manages to keep herself and those around centered in thought and action. In addition to writing she runs a blog called Janice's Take On It at www.janiceelliotthoward.com. Her newest project is a podcast called "Thoughts in the Car" that can be found at soundcloud.com/jyhoward or in the iTunes store.
I know that I am not alone when I say that I have no emotions when my grandchildren tell me that I'm mean. I'll admit the first time my grandson said it to me that I felt bad. No one wants to be labelled as the mean grandma. However, sometimes it is necessary, you let it roll off your back and do what's in the best interest of the little person in your life. Funny how I can be so mean and thirty seconds later I get "I love you Grammie." It all works out in the end.
Book Excerpt
Being A Grandmother
In the mind of a little person, mean is just another way to say, they cannot get their way. The objective for little people is always to win. Well, life does not work that way and I have no problem with giving them a reality check every so often. The little people in my life have very short term memory.
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