We’ve all heard of this …..
We spend many years bringing up a family, whether it is 1 or 2 or 6 etc children. It is a life changing experience.
No sooner have you settled into the demands of family life & the world of children with its problems & high & lows, when lo & behold they’re all grown up & have flown the nest.
Now you are left to either continue with your career (if you had one) & managed to keep working whilst having childcare – could be grandparents or paid help or quite popular now are ‘house husbands’…… there seem to be many men able to work from home whilst the women go out to work … so whatever helps or works for you……you may not even go to work or need to work, in which case when your children have grown, do you become ‘A lady who lunches’ or will you take up a hobby or even give your time now to charity work? Maybe you’ll want to return to study an online course or university degree? Thankfully there are now many choices.
Usually this is only another brief time in our passage of life as your own children start to produce their offsprings! As long as they do t move too far away, we find ourselves as grandparents helping with childcare! Many of us secretly enjoy this as we don’t need to do the disciplining or homework etc…. we can spoil them if we chose to!
Depending on your child you can get as involved or not involved as you chose!