Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Grannies and Ageism

Grannies nowadays face unfair discrimination on the basis of age, even as the life expectancy is longer than previously and senior citizens remain active much longer. Society today fears aging to such a great degree that discrimination against older people and the pressure to look and act younger is very strong. Grannies may be pressured to have face lifts and dye their hair, rather than feeling comfortable in their own skin. Older women may be expected to stay at home rather than be active in the community. Grannies, many assume, must be senile, so why should we listen to what they say?

These attitudes disparage the wisdom of the older generations. Grannies pretty often know exactly what they’re talking about, and they are worth listening too. They don’t just sit at home babbling about the past. Grannies use their knowledge and wisdom within their communities, and should be encouraged instead of mocked. A society that fears aging is a society that is not comfortable with its own values and lifestyles. Often, grannies remain active out of necessity. Today, it is difficult for parents to raise children on only one income, and two working parents can mean that grannies need to take an active role in raising the children. Other grannies work full time or part time jobs. Discrimination against older generations blocks access to the most vibrant source of experience and wisdom available. Ageism needs to be eliminated, as grannies these days cannot and will not abide by the stereotypical roles assigned to them by an ageist society afraid of time.

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Annoying grannies

I know there should be respect towards old people, I know that for sure and I do my best in order to reveal that respect towards old people. Though, they do r best in order to make me never reveal that respect towards the. They are yelling and screaming and they are blaming young people for everything bad they see and they always say there is nothing good young generation can bring to this world. They are taking too much in themselves and it is not that easy to stay cool and not to say something in response. Old ladies always blame young generation for it has no respect towards old people, though they never think they are guilty themselves for no respect towards them. I say, there is something should be done in order there was a respect towards this person, but I agree to reveal respect towards old ladies just like that, it’s just they do their best to dispose that respect and common attitude towards the. I say, old ladies, grannies, you only have to be more silent sometimes and never pry into lives of other people and then they will reveal the whole respect towards your age.

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Monday, January 11, 2010

They are lonely

Most people complain about their grannies. They say when people grow really old they turn into terrible creatures with all those drawbacks multiplied in them. Indeed it is so; all the drawbacks people had when they were young are multiplied when people are old. Though, it is not the time that multiplies the drawbacks and it is also not the age that does so but it is a way of life people have. Those grannies are just lonely old ladies who have lost everything their lives consisted of. See, they are mothers and they are wives and they are workers and players or something. They had the common life and now, when they are old everything is gone for them. Their children are grown up and they don’t need people to care after them anymore, their husbands may be dead or they are also old and it is calm the only thing they. And as for the job they don’t have it anymore, there is no place they have to rush to in the morning and so on. They are lonely and frightened and these are reasons for them to be so yelling.

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They part their wisdom

Old people are people that know a lot about this life we live with because they have already thing the whole of this life, they know all those mistakes they did and they remember all those lessons they learned of that mistakes. They are wise people and they want to part this wisdom with their kids. Though, there are no such kids that would listen for their parents and so grannies have no chance to part it with their kids. But, they can part that wisdom with their grandchildren, so it happened that old people love their grandchildren more than they love their kids and grandchildren love their grandparents more than their parents do and so they usually find the mutual understanding. And all people pare their knowledge and wisdom with those young and make them feel more comfortable in this life. I say that young people should be more careful to those words their grandparents tell them because those people really know what they are talking about and they will never make you do something wrong and they can save you from all those mistakes.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Awesome about grannies

The most awesome thing about being a child with two grannies is that each one is starving to be the preferred granny. When two grannies start competing for the preference of the grandchildren, there is spoiling afoot. Many people don’t realize that there are many reasons that grannies don’t have the same limits as a parent. Most often, it is because secretly they want to be on the A list of grannies rather than the B list. They want to be the preferred granny for holidays and get together. It is merely a ploy for affection rooted deeply in their insane love for their grandchild.

 

When grannies go to war, it seems like the child is only going to benefit. In some ways, they do. There is an outpouring of unconditional love that only grannies can give. But the lack of rules, the obscene amounts of sugar and snacks, and the lack of discipline can make for some disturbing scenes when it is time for a child to go home. The parents end up becoming the proverbial bad guys and the grannies have only exacerbated the situation by refusing to adhere to the rules. Some kids, as they get older, can differentiate between their grannies’ love and the rules of their parents. But little kids often need a set of rules that are rather stagnant in order to prevent serious melt downs.

 

My own grannies had this war for a long time. What they didn’t realize is that I loved them both, differently and for different reasons, but they were my grannies after all.

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Monday, March 2, 2009

Disrespection’s bad

You may have called her Nan, Nana, Gram, Grandmother or any other variation of this word, but they all mean the same thing.  Grannies are a select group of women in our lives that appear to have all the power in the world and can make anything better.  They know just about anything you ask them…well at least they always have an answer.  There is something magically unique that happens when a grandmother takes care of their sick grandchildren.  Even many years later, after the child has grown up and is possibly a grandparent themselves, they can remember exactly how it felt to be sick at grandmother’s house and how she made them feels as she took care of them.

Grannies have the time to teach what the parents forgot or did not have time to do.  She was the one to show how to catch fireflies and keep them alive or how to catch fish at the local stream.  And someone cannot think about their granny without remembering her cooking.  Many will try to mirror her culinary talents but no one will ever make it just the way she did.  She would happily share her recipes with everyone but no one could make the food just right.  Perhaps it was that special addition of love she put in the batter.  

It is an unspoken law that everyone knows not to disrespect their grannies.  You might mouth off to your own parents but never to your granny.  

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