Grandparents: How we value them?

Have you value your grandparents? Sadly my grandparents are both gone, when I was just a boy, they died in the province; because of financial problem at that time we didn’t able to go home.

We must valued our grandparents, from them we learn an extra ordinary character that they adopt from our old custom, because of our modern day we forgot already the good values of the old time and we can learn it from our grandparents.

Sometimes our grandparent are strict than our parents, they discipline us than our parents, they are more than a parent than our biological parents, maybe that’s is why they are called "Grand Parents"


Let me share to you some things to make our grandparent want us to do to them.

• Let’s accept them, just as you want your grandparents to accept you, do the same for them, and buy them some cloth or anything that they want, complement them and tell them how good they look.
• Let’s learn from them, you would wonder how the knowledge and wisdom store up in their mind because of their experience, sometime, they know already what the outcome of your plan is.
• Lets listen to them, sometimes our grandparent taught us the thing they know in their time, but we didn’t listen because what they are saying is old tune and we are in the modern tune now, instead to become tired of their story, why we didn’t listen, this is they want, to listen to them, in fact their story are true and you can get a lesson.
• Let’s talk to them, have a time to talk to them, share them your goal, some happy moment in your daily life, they want to hear it, like when their child was young, now your parents who is busy now in their work, now, they are looking for it from you,  their grandchildren. They want to hear about your study, job, hobbies and activities, they are also often more approving and less judgmental than our parents.
• Let’s help them, they help you when you are small, now help them too, instead of noticing the fallen leaves in their backyard when you visit, why don’t you get a dash pan and get it. Help them to clean their house, offer them to get out and dine in the restaurant. Help them to be happy in their life.
• Lets share our faith with them tell them your growing faith, maybe in your young age they bring you in the church, so now, they want to know if your faith that they plant to you was still in you, you can be a real testimony to them if they are unbeliever. Just like the old days that they bring you to Church, bring them to the Church too.

Our grandparents are eager to maintain a good relationship with us, they want to remember their old days with their child and we can fulfill it, as their grandchildren by taking care of them, and by listening to them.