Graca Machel speaking about society and children. Second in a series of short videos from The Elders supporting one goal: education for all.
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Seniors and Children: An Ideal Relationship
By Kevin Brown | Bio
Like me, you can probably remember a relationship you had as a child with an elderly relative or friend of the family. Some of my best memories of such a time involve Mrs. Cowling, an elderly lady who lived next door to us. We had just moved to a new neighborhood in Calgary, and there were only two completed homes on the block. Our home had the only family of children for about three blocks. There was my older sister Paulette (13 years old), myself (7) , and my brand new brother Ken who was not
What is a Grandparent?
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