A New Family Feud Has Grandparents And Parents At Each Other’s Throats

When I was a child, I could always count on my grandpa having Fudgsicles in the freezer. Back then, it didn’t register that this endless supply of summer treats was really free childcare for my parents. The distinction would have been meaningless to me, anyway. I spent time with my grandparents because they were my grandparents. Nobody explained to me that someone’s schedule was being accommodated; it was simply a fact that my grandparents were intimately involved in my life. I love them and liked it that way. 

Parents and grandparents online are now litigating what I have decided to refer to as the Great Grandparent Debate. Naturally, everyone has chosen the most uncharitable possible version of everyone else’s argument.