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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I am very lucky when it comes to family support...My dad will stop over whenever he has the time my step mom as well, my hubby's sister comes over when she has the time or will watch them if I have a doc appt or my hubby does...my mom is not the most reliable person, but usually if I ask her to watch the kids for a couple hours she most likely will...My grandparents also will help out if I let them...I have 3 kids and they're almost 80 and not in the most amazing health situation so we usually will just go visit...I feel very blessed and never worry that something so disgusting as this would EVER happen when my kids are being watched by my family,
My husband and I are very involved with our grandson who is two. He and his twin sister were born very early and we tended them nearly daily in the NICU. Our granddaughter died at five weeks. I suppose the loss caused us to double up our commitment to the remaining twin, but I think we would have been involved anyway. I know I was dying to be a gramma before she was even pregnant.
hahahahaaha!! I'm a Grandma, and YES, I would rather go off on cruises couple times a year and do nice outings with my galpals and sisters and such than raise MY children's kids! LOL OMG as you young things say, but I put in my time and kids are too much work, I'm "retired" from them.
Oh sure I'll have them over but only after they are potty trained! Toddlers are far too much trouble.
Seriously, I do not want to raise my grandkids, but I do love them and try to let them visit a lot.
I feel bad for the family in your story, the whole family is probably trashy, is my best guess. If YOU knew your mom was an alchie, would you EVER let her have the kid alone? I think not.
Sad sad sad.
I'm a gramma and don't mind at all watching my grandkids while both parents work. When they go run errands, I say take them with. I did it, they can too. I'd have slumber partys occasionally with some of the grandkids, that's when the parents were free to do what they wanted to. I want to visit with all of them together, kids and grandkids.
We grandparents do have a life too. We've raised our kids, now it's time for our kids to raise theirs.