Grandparents can be frustrating at times.

My grandparents on my dad’s side died when I was a toddler. My grandparents from my mom’s side lived in the Philippines. I only met them once when I was 13. Apparently, they enslaved my mom, making her work but taking all her money. One time when she tried to leave to make money for herself, they kidnapped her and made her the only one who worked to benefit them. I’m glad I never really knew them.

For me, it was "going to see a man about a horse". My dad was very hard to read. And yes, there were lessons I didn't understand. I remember him asking why I got a C in a class when I was about 10, I worked and got a B next period, "why don't you have an A?", working harder I got an A, I just knew he was going to ask why I didn't get an A+, there was no pleasing the man. It wasn't until years later I realized he was showing me how to work to my potential instead of working to get by. One of my favorites was "Don't you get fresh with me young man."

I never saw any of my grandparents. 😞

After I was born ,her grandson ,she said to my mother — not more cannon fodder !! The old girl still had memories of ww1

I loved my grandmothers and respected my grandfathers. I was honored to speak at my paternal grandmother's funeral, so I could tell everyone what a loving sweet lady she was.

My Grandfather (my Mother's Father) and I got along famously.

It was my Grandfather's wife, of whom he married after divorcing my Grandmother who could be a real piece of work at times.

My grandmother made roast beef that was as hard as a hockey puck.

Sorry, not really relevant to your post, just made me think of it.

So very true or Keep crying and I will give you something to cry about.

I only knew one grandmother and she was a spiteful old woman

My paternal grandma was not cool, so I don't miss her. My maternal grandma tho? I watched her pass on and I miss the hell out of her

The vast majority of people who got married and had kids right after the end of WWII, had absolutely no business getting married, let alone pretending they were competent parents.

The greatest problem with our parents, grandparents and great grandparents from that early 1900's generation is that they followed what everyone else was doing at the time, instead of taking stock of their life and being true to themselves about who they really were and what they really wanted.

Instead, they followed the crowd because that's what they all did during those post WWII times and then had a family they were completely incapable of properly raising and educating.

What we now have for the most part, are the aging baby boomers who were born between 1946 and 1964, whom are ready for long term care at the high end of the age spectrum or are ready to kill their aging parents at the low end of the boomer age spectrum.

Almost every one of them are pissed off at the ineptitude of their wartime parents for bringing kids into the world when they couldn't afford it as they followed everyone else's path in life which led them into a life of marginal poverty for the child-rearing years of their lives.

As a result of some really stupid decision that were made by our parent's and grandparent's, we all suffered and many of us simply repeated the same recurring pattern their aging parents followed because that's all that was ever taught to them.

Big deal!