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the only adult legally allowed to spoil you rotten and then hand you back.
means A parent of one's parent — your mother's or father's mother or father.
from Built from "grand-" plus "parent," where "grand" comes via Old French from the Latin "grandis," meaning "big" or "great." Here "grand" doesn't mean magnificent so much as a generation further up — the same logic that gives French "grand-père" and "grand-mère." "Parent" itself traces to the Latin "parens," from "parere," "to bring forth" or "give birth." So a grandparent is, quite literally, the "big" or elder one who brought forth the one who brought forth you.
- genetic loophole
- Grandmothers may survive menopause to help raise grandchildren.
- name chaos
- Same person answers to Nana, Pop-Pop, Oma, or Yaya.
- deep time
- Some great-great-grandparents share life with five living generations.
- candy bias
- Studies show grandparents discipline less than parents.
- story keepers
- They hold family history no document ever recorded.
queen elizabeth ii — grandmother to 8 grandchildren including princes william and harry
jimmy carter — grandfather to 22 grandchildren as of 2023, longest-lived u.s. president