An old joke says that the reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have an enemy in common. Grandparents love to give, children love to receive, and parents may seem to both of them like the enemy of gratification. Mom becomes the one who says, "No," grandma the one who says, "Yes." Or so it seems to the parents.The mother of a 2-year-old spoke to me about feeling stressed by a visit from her husband's parents, and I was struck by the universality of her [...]
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