This is NOT a babyIf I had a dollar every time I heard a mom of my generation complain about grandmothers these days, I'd be able to maybe go to dinner a lot or something. It usually goes like this: I thought my mother/mother-in-law would be such an involved grandmother, instead she's off on a cruise every week and acts like she's doing us a favor by "babysitting" her own grandchildren. Or my personal favorite: My mother/mother-in-law is too busy recovering from plastic surgery to hang with the kids, and when she does come over she insists on being called "Glam-ma."
Yep, Baby Boomers are not turning out to be the best at nurturing their grandchildren. Or perhaps they're just the first generation of women to buck the traditional "grandma" role. But this 54-year-old grandmother just committed probably the worst grandma offense one could: She got loaded and left her 1-month-old grandson on the side of the road.
Hey, grandma's gotta get her party on too.
Thank god the baby was discovered and is all right. Apparently the little guy was hanging out on the on-ramp to I80 in Sacramento for about 45 minutes in his carrier, which was sitting on top of a bottle of brandy, before his grandma came back to get him. It seems she had to go get something, and the baby was in the way. Also, she was drunk. So I'm guessing that something she had to get was a pack of smokes.
I remember when we left my daughter, who was about a month old, with my in-laws. They didn't get drunk, run errands, or leave her on the side of the road. Who knew how lucky we were? It's just a sad state of affairs when you can't even rely on your own flesh and blood to care for your own flesh and blood.
Does this generation of grandmothers seem like the worst yet?
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My parents are very involved in my kid's lives...They practically consider them their kids so when we're not around they fall into "parent" mode...not "grandparent" mode...whatever that consist of LOL
We're a military family so we don't see our family's very much but when we do go home we spend the day with our families and at night after the kids are asleep we like to go out with our friends (we are from neighboring towns). My mom always complains that every time we go back she gets stuck babysitting and that we never ask her to go out. UM.... Your my mom not my friend I don't really want to go to the bar with you. The kids are sleeping and you didn't have plans to go anywhere anyway (I always ask when she says no I'll ask if its ok we go out). We also stay at her house so she's only with them alone from about 9pm till 2am, she also doesn't get up with them in the morning we do. And she doesn't watch them every time we go back just like we don't go to the bar every time we go back. My sister lives in the same town so she sees her kids everyday and buys them things all the time. But when my kids are around maybe once a month for 2 or 3 days she acts like its the end of the world. I didn't have my first born until I was 27 So I didn't make her a young g'mother. She has never come to visit but I still get I never see the kids. So hows that my fault?
MIL and FIL are kind definitely the ME generation. Theyre selfish people. period. DF says they were selfish parents, but expected them to be less focused on themselves now that they've had YEARS to do as they please. He's disappointed, and I am too. It makes us both furious when she tries to imply that she sees the kids all the time, because she just doesnt! She works from home, and part time, by the way....She will ask for her to stay over on a friday and call by 930 or 10 am and ask when we'll "be there" because she's "done" I dont think it's selfish. I dont want help rasing my kids, I just expected trips to Grandma's and cookies and going to the zoo like I did with mine. Im not selfish for being upset with my kids grandparents...Im sad for my KIDS.
I hate to be the odd woman out here, but for someone who is considered part of the "Me" generation, my mother raised my brother alone for almost a decade while my father worked in TN and sent money home, nurtured a broken marriage to her high school sweetheart back to life, gave up her career to have me, nursed my brother back to health from a debilitating brain injury, nursed all 4 of my parents' parents through old age, and currently drives an hour both ways to come pick my precious daughter up and watch her overnight about once a week. She's helped me through puberty, college, drug addiction, unemployment, marriage, motherhood, and is responsible for about half of my cooking and homekeeping knowledge. She's the kind of woman who doesn't measure her ingredients, and I've watched her pinch leaves off of a tomato and make them sprout. She's amazing, and selfless, and I shudder at the time I wasted thinking I knew better than she. So there goes your theory.
no theory. it's a fact...a LOT of people from your generation are selfish. one person doesnt prove that a lot are. there goes yours....
I'd put more of the blame on the mom of the baby here! He's only 1 month old and she left him with a woman who clearly MUST have given inclinations of her idiocy beforehand!!! Glad the baby's ok :)
I must be super lucky both my mom and my mother in law are GREAT grand parents! They are both in their early 50's and both very active in our childrens lives! I feel blessed!