{"id":85268,"date":"2026-02-20T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85268"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:23:04","slug":"my-parents-are-useless-for-childcare-they-only-help-with-their-grandchildren-on-their-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/my-parents-are-useless-for-childcare-they-only-help-with-their-grandchildren-on-their-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"My parents are useless for childcare \u2013 they only help with their grandchildren on their terms\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1D313W.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Some parents fear that their children are losing out on the opportunity to learn about family culture culture and history from their grandparents - E+\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Way back in 1980, St Winifred\u2019s school choir had a saccharine hit with\u00a0<em>There\u2019s No One Quite Like Grandma<\/em>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/family-relationships\/my-parents-are-useless-for-childcare-they-only-help-with-their-grandchildren-on-their-terms\/ar-AA1D39MR?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69970f4b96a44b56869e52cf05e05f9e&amp;ei=152\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Way back in 1980, St Winifred\u2019s school choir had a saccharine hit with\u00a0There\u2019s No One Quite Like Grandma.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/grandma.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85269,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85268\/revisions\/85269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}