Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member Josephine G.

What is the most effective difference between me and my grandchildren?

They know that they are precious just because they are. I know I am precious only if I work hard enough to deserve it (and only death will decide). And the generation in-between? They have the push-me-pull-you experience of the collision and the hard-earned resolution of two opposing ways of being in the world. What that means I have explored fairly thoroughly in my articles on The Bridge Generation (you can find links to these articles at the end).

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[MIZMAC]

I am now 85. When I was born my mother had never held a baby before. My father was a huge support to her. They went on to have 6 children including twins ( the first set the doctor had ever delivered.) When I gave birth to our first child my husband was frightened to nurse her until my Dad came a few days after I came home and immediately wanted a nurse of his first grand child.
He then had the courage to nurse his daughter.

 

[Nana Zorak]

I was an only child who was loved & bought up to be independent & self contained which is why I was extremely happy when lock down was called for in Queensland I have never been bored .Because I am able to be happy with just my own company. I am now 86 & love my life with my carer who lives most of his life after midnight,being the son of a night-shift nurse also the occasional visit of my wonderful granddaughter who works in age care so knows what I am facing at my advanced age I also have out lived any relative from either side of the family.

 

[Jarred Santos]

I am now 85. When I was born my mother had never held a baby before. My father was a huge support to her. They went on to have 6 children including twins ( the first set the doctor had ever delivered.) When I gave birth to our first child my husband was frightened to nurse her until my Dad came a few days after I came home and immediately wanted a nurse of his first grand child.
He then had the courage to nurse his daughter.

When my sister first called me to hold my niece a few weeks after giving birth, I was so utterly terrified of holding her very fragile frame in my hands. Reading your comment took me back to that time, @MIZMAC

Because I am able to be happy with just my own company.

I loved reading this, @Nana Zorak! Me too!

 

[Littleboy8]

When my sister first called me to hold my niece a few weeks after giving birth, I was so utterly terrified of holding her very fragile frame in my hands. Reading your comment took me back to that time, @MIZMAC


I loved reading this, @Nana Zorak! Me too!

Me alsojust my littleboy and myself.

 

[DrivingGirl]

I am now 85. When I was born my mother had never held a baby before. My father was a huge support to her. They went on to have 6 children including twins ( the first set the doctor had ever delivered.) When I gave birth to our first child my husband was frightened to nurse her until my Dad came a few days after I came home and immediately wanted a nurse of his first grand child.
He then had the courage to nurse his daughter.

I’m embarrassed to say I had never held a tiny baby until my son was born - a function of a chaotic early life - but it was a really scary thing for me.

 

[DrivingGirl]

I am now 85. When I was born my mother had never held a baby before. My father was a huge support to her. They went on to have 6 children including twins ( the first set the doctor had ever delivered.) When I gave birth to our first child my husband was frightened to nurse her until my Dad came a few days after I came

I’m embarrassed to say I had never held a tiny baby until my son was born - a function of a chaotic early life - but it was a really scary thing for me
I loved the article, expressing the early days of our parent’s lives and don’t forget 2 world wars and the horrific impact that had on our parent’s generation - they had it tough!!

 

[David567]

I think a lot of parents these days are in it for the welfare payments. Many just don't care what their kids do. Sad but true.

 

[PattiB]

I had been around my brother & sisters babies but I was so scared of my rather tiny son, especially at bath time. We managed to all get through it but the experience of a prem baby put me off having any more. Like Nana Zorak he’s happy on his own or with other people around and was never bored as a child. I’m so grateful that I could choose how many children I had. Don’t think I’d have survived in my mothers or grandmothers time let alone hundred of years ago.