In today's
contemporary era, with changing life styles, the roles of family members are
changing. Owing to the hectic schedules of young couples, their children are
mostly looked after by the older members of the family. Even though it seems quite
relaxing trend at present, in my belief it would have numbers of harmful effect
in the longer run for the aged people as they may face problems with their
health at this age.
To begin with, even though it
seems quite relaxing trend for working couples, it is practically difficult for
senior people due to their poor health at this age. For instance, taking care
of children requires lot of energy and agility itself, whereas old age people are
usually found lacking stamina or suffering with lot of other age-related
problems. Hence, giving them burden of children’s care will surely put them in
trouble. Moreover, I personally feel that the former generation usually have
had already contributed enough for the family and they have spent their whole
life for rearing up their kids, so now they should be given ample amount of
time to enjoy their retirement and live their life for themselves, rather than giving
them extra loads of rearing grand-children. They, at this age, ought to be
given space to live a life free from any of such responsibilities.
However, on the other side, such
a trend can give an unspoken happiness to older people when they play with
their children’s children. In my culture, majority of senior people have a
common dream of playing with their grand-children, because that gives them
immense pleasure. Moreover, sometimes, when youngsters go to work, their
parents feel lonely and bore at home and are not lefty with any other better
options to kill their time but spending time with kids, instead by taking the
accountability of the kids they themselves feel happy as they can somehow help
their over hectic children. But on the whole, this responsibility is good till
they can really enjoy it and it must not be thrusted upon the old people just because
they are idle at home.
To recapitulate, I strongly
feel grandparents ought to be given their enough part to enjoy retire life at
that age and must not be burdened with any more extra responsibilities, instead
parents need to be more calculative in managing time and work to look after
their children, to make them competent enough for the latest world.