A third of families use grandparents for childcare, according to the charity Grandparents Plus, often causing hardship for grandparents who retire early or cut their working hours in order to help out. The charity calls for these effort to be ‘recognised financially’ by the government, since free childcare often allows parents to go to work [...]
Posts Tagged ‘grandparents’
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Posted in Employment, Parents, tagged childcare, grandparents, mothers on March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Grandchildren make Grandparents Fat
Posted in 0-5s, Health, tagged grandparents, obesity on February 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Purely anecdotal, of course, but my experience is not this. Instead I find that in the process of trying to tempt my granddaughter with tasty morsels most of them end up in my mouth.
