Grandparents
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Outside my
grandparents'
house in the busy streets of India, I saw people standing in long lines under the hot sun filling buckets with water from a tap.
People like me, born in the United States to Cuban immigrant parents, are actually more likely to have worse health than my
grandparents
did.
And when we fail mothers and babies, we fail everyone who loves mothers and babies: the fathers, the partners, the grandparents, the aunties, the friends and kin that make our human social networks.
What I wanted to do was dispel the idea that these were musty old libraries, the kind of places that everyone is bored with, you know, not your
grandparents'
library.
I, myself, was born in a family of migrants; my father, my grandparents, like many other Italians, left for Argentina and met the fate of those who are left with nothing.
And then if they wanted to call my
grandparents
who lived in another city, they needed to book something called a "trunk call," and then wait again, for hours or even days.
It's kind of like your
grandparents
in reverse.
And it worked for our grandparents, our parents, and it's going to work for us.
They had parents, and the few that were orphaned had other living relatives, like
grandparents
and aunties and uncles and other siblings.
But of course, I know what they're really asking, so I say something like, "Well, my
grandparents
and my mum were born in India, my dad and I were born in Kenya, and I was brought up in London.
It's the kids who have parents and
grandparents
and uncles and aunts that can't even afford to pay for school lunch that gets this food.
In Southern California, I grew up in a multigenerational home, meaning I lived under the same roof as my parents, aunts, uncles and
grandparents.
Your great-great
grandparents
got by on muscle power, and yet we all think there's this huge power that's essential for our lifestyle.
But when I think about my
grandparents
and the way they become more dependent on others to perform simple everyday tasks such as using the restroom alone, they often feel like they're becoming a burden.
My
grandparents
did.
But then you have the
grandparents
on the other side, who don't put their final affairs in order, who don't get rid of all the junk they've been hoarding for decades and decades and leave their kids to deal with it.
I was raised by my grandparents, and they were antiques dealers, so I grew up surrounded by history and beautiful things.
I get emails from viewers in their 20s who use my videos to explain nonbinary gender to their
grandparents.
The world of plenty that Patrick and his parents and his
grandparents
have been shut out of.
As we live longer and longer, surviving illnesses and injuries that would have killed our grandparents, even our parents, the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms, spending much of our lives somewhere between the two.
I am not an immigrant or a refugee myself, but I take these attacks personally, because my
grandparents
were.
What I loved so much about my call with Ellie was that she knew in her core that the stories of her
grandparents
were no different than today's stories, and she wanted to do something about it.
The reason why that's reasonable is, when your
grandparents
were given Social Security, they got it at 65 and were expected to check out at 68. Sixty-eight is young today.
I mean, your
grandparents
had these great big cones, and then your parents had these odd boxes that would squawk at odd times during dinner, and now we have these little buds that nobody sees.
Like most assimilated German Jews, my
grandparents
simply hoped that the troubles of the Third Reich would blow over.
Only after understanding the discrimination they faced did my
grandparents
make the gut-wrenching decision to send their two children on the Kindertransport bound for England.
I'd love to be able to tell you right now how much the food you had for breakfast, the food you're going to have for lunch, has shifted from what your
grandparents
ate in terms of its nutritional quality.
Thousands more refugee children have been taken from their grandparents, siblings and other family members at the border.
People were actually getting poorer than their parents, and sometimes even poorer than their
grandparents
had been.
Juana’s maternal
grandparents
were born in Spain, making them members of Mexico’s most esteemed class.
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