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One value of older people is that they are increasingly useful as
grandparents
for offering high-quality childcare to their grandchildren, if they choose to do it, as more young women enter the workforce and as fewer young parents of either gender stay home as full-time caretakers of their children.
Compared to the usual alternatives of paid babysitters and day care centers,
grandparents
offer superior, motivated, experienced child care.
Unlike other caregivers,
grandparents
don't quit their job because they found another job with higher pay looking after another baby.
Many of them told us the stories about how they came to own their home through their
grandparents
or great-grandparents, who were one of 1.6 million people who migrated from the rural South to the industrial North, as depicted in this painting by Jacob Lawrence, "The Great Migration."
Now some of our audience members also tell us about some of the positive things that are happening in their communities, and many of them are banding together to take control of some of the vacant lots, and they're starting community gardens, which are creating a great sense of community stewardship, but they're very, very clear to tell us that this is not enough, that they want to see their neighborhoods return to the way that their
grandparents
had found them.
Otherwise, how else do we tell our grandchildren that your
grandparents
sat in that room in neat little rows like cornstalks and watched this professor at the end talk about content and, you know, you didn't even have a rewind button?
She has heart failure, and I'm sure many of you guys in the audience have parents, grandparents, loved ones who have chronic diseases.
And before he was arrested, he had murdered his grandparents, his mother and five co-eds at UC Santa Cruz.
Or if you could ask our
grandparents
for advice and hear those comforting words even if they're no longer with us?
This is the former trolley terminal that was the depot for passengers traveling over the Williamsburg Bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan, and it was open between 1908 and 1948, just around the time when my
grandparents
were living right in the area.
If my
grandparents
and my parents were really focused on building the city up and out, I think my generation is focused on reclaiming the spaces that we already have, rediscovering our shared history, and reimagining how we can make our communities more interesting, more beautiful and more just.
My wife Fernanda doesn't like the term, but a lot of people in my family died of melanoma cancer and my parents and
grandparents
had it.
I became concerned about my own
grandparents
and decided to invent a smart bathroom system.
But perhaps his biggest influences were his maternal
grandparents.
People like my
grandparents.
If we were having this TED meeting in our
grandparents'
day, that might not be so big a claim.
There's babies and there's grandparents, I'm getting them in the tree and waiting for the light to set, and it's going, going, and I've got one sheet of film left, and I think, I'm okay, I'm in control, I'm in control.
These people taught me that we are only who we are because of our parents and our
grandparents
and our forefathers going on and on and on before that, and I, no matter how romantic or how idealistic I am on this journey, I did not know that until two weeks ago.
And we learned that Asia's largest LGBT pride event happens just blocks away from where my
grandparents
live.
Our
grandparents'
generation created an amazing system of canals and reservoirs that made it possible for people to live in places where there wasn't a lot of water.
To your grandparents, parents, or even older siblings, this idea would have sounded strange.
And his discovery gave our
grandparents
and great-grandparents the chance to come here and build better lives for their children.
People would come over to talk to my grandparents, and after they would leave, my mother would come over to us, and she'd say, "Do you know who that was?
He was adopted by those who I know as my
grandparents.
So my grandparents, the very first time that they had kids, they expected that they were going to raise them in a way that was uniquely good.
Well, one thing that happened is that my grandparents, the same
grandparents
of setting someone on fire fame, they really shaped up by the time I came around.
When I was a little girl, I would visit my
grandparents
every summer.
One started with "Boxer," the dead dog of his
grandparents.
And when my
grandparents
had little baby Peter, the world was very different.
There was a eugenics rising, and my
grandparents
realized, pretty quickly I think, that they were on the wrong side of the eugenics equation.
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