Karin Kasdin has a great piece in HuffPost about why it's so hard for grandparents to keep their advice to themselves. Although experience is valued in almost every other endeavor, she points out, those who are mere novices at parenting willfully ignore the advice of "those who earned their parenting stripes with distinction."
The truth is that we may think that we were good parents, and most of us were. But we all made mistakes, and guess who had a front row seat for those mistakes--those former children, now parents, who are convinced they can do a better job. As Kasdin points out, it is their turn to try.
Still, grandparents do have some rights, especially when grandchildren are in our homes. Read about five decisions that grandparents do have the right to make. Just because we're grandparents, that doesn't mean that we're pushovers. Or, at least, we're not always pushovers.
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When the grandchildren came along, we agreed to adopt a policy of ‘think it, don’t say it’, unless we were asked, of course. If we’re asked for an opinion, we give it, based on our own experience. When the grandchildren come to visit, our daughter and her husband are happy for us to reinforce their line on basic manners and respect for others. As far as the children are concerned, there’s no confusion. We’re all singing from the same sheet.