How to Be a Good Mother-In-Law and Grandmother (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from How to Be a Good Mother-in-Law and Grandmother

Grandparents also help a child's emotional development by widening the circle in which children feel at home. The first thing a baby learns if he is well cared for is that his mother and his father are people whom he can trust. He has discovered they keep him fed and warm and comfortable, but as for the rest of the world, who knows?

It is a fortunate baby or toddler who has a chance to discover that Grandma's arms can be just as comforting as. Mother's. This astonishing discovery gives him courage to trust other people, too, and lays the foundation for a sense of security. A little later, playing, eating, and sleeping at Grandma's give him the feeling that he can be safe and happy away from home base. Grandparents are the best introduction to the world-away-from-home.

Grandmother's house often stands for the chance to have a friendly sympathetic. Adult all to one's self away from brothers and sisters who make competition tough. Even getting away from parents who may be cracking down in such matters as language, bathing, or doing the dishes, may be a relief. Every human being needs to escape from the demands of daily life once in a while. If Junior at four or six or eight years of age finds Grandmother's house a place of refuge, more power to him and to her!

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