It is perfectly acceptable behavior in social situations to extol the virtues of the grandchild. What was considered completely tacky in the old days of regular parenting is now not only appropriate, welcomed, yea, even solicited. No self-respecting parents in my day would go to a cocktail party with pockets and handbags stuffed with photos of their children. Yet in the new grand-millennium individuals showing up anywhere, from neighborhood watch meetings to the grocery store, without a sleeve of pictures of Junior’s junior is just not done. Everyone in attendance gets into the viewing, men and women alike, making funny noises and tongue clickings, pronouncing with certainty whose family the babe resembles. (Usually the family of the grandparent present.) I myself have seen photos of children who look so much like their father they might be twins, yet in the company of the mother’s family, I will swear he or she looks just like Mama.
It’s just the way we do things now. And it’s nice.
Love, Carol. Dot.Com
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