Bad Grandparents
I keep thinking about the many family mythologies that exist, in spite of what we know. One of those categories is grandparenting. Pretty soon we will find out more.
Saturday night we invited our neighbors down the hall for some champagne they are young they are blond they have two boys sixteen months apart in October they’ll have a third boy we like them a lot they are elevator friends I wanted them to tell us what their parents did right and wrong as grandparents because I am a little nervous about the Grandparent Thing. Having a child being a parent one of those subjects too many Hallmarky adjectives few people tell the truth about The Hard Parts. My polite blond neighbors spoke a long list of Unfortunate Intrusiveness. I wrote their words in a new notebook I will call Bad Grandparenting Annie said her daughter in law told her once you had your child this is mine. Of course her daughter in law is right. Even so.