Taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds:

• Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of her own. They like other people’s.
• A grandfather is a man grandmother.
• Grandparents don’t have to do anything except be there when we come to see them. They are so old they shouldn’t play hard or run. It is good if they drive us to the store and have lots of quarters for us.
• When they take us for walks, they slow down past things