Grandparents are great. They're there to spoil you and be your kakampi when your parents scold you or you want to go out and you're not being allowed. They'll even give you some cash under the table… Cool! :) However, if you're the parent, grandparents can be the source of migraines.
Okay, so they know more about parenting and babies than I do at this point. I concede that. Also I'm someone who's never too proud to ask whenever I don't know or am not sure of something even if it sounds absolutely foolish sometimes. But it drives me off the wall when they keep giving me unsolicited advice or expect me to handle things with my kid the way they (especially my dad 'coz he's a bit of a control freak) did. Just this week, everyone noticed how rounded Jeolo's become. He screams for his milk every hour or two. My dad suggested that I shouldn't give my baby his feeding every time and to instead let him cry a little bit. Allow him to exercise his lungs. Dada had mentioned the same so fine, let him cry. Jeolo hadn't even caterwauled for five minutes when out comes the lolo, asking me in a scolding tone why I was letting the baby cry like that. Kaya ko raw tiisin?! Then picks up my wailing little boy and whisks him away to their bedroom leaving me stunned and incensed. Leche naman… they tell me to let him cry and now that I did, I'm a bad mother? It's beginning to drive me nuts.
Now I understand why it's better for everyone that the grandparents just come to visit instead of living with them... Especially if you value your sanity.