Do you talk to your kids about their deceased grandparents?

United States
February 9, 2007 6:01pm CST
My kids are young, and never got the chance to meet my dad before he died. He did see pictures of them, and talked to my daughter on the phone, but that was it. I have pictures of him around my office, and my daughter (although she is under the age of 5) asks about him almost on a daily basis. Sometimes she even tells me that she talks to him, and on one occasion, she told me that he wanted her to tell me something. It was rather bizarre. LOL But I tell her about some of his favorite things he used to do as a kid, and some of the things that he and I used to do when I was a kid. I think it's important for her (and for her brother when he gets a bit older) to learn all about him. He would have been a wonderful grandfather to them.
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• United States
10 Feb 07
We always talk about their Papa. I have lots of his things around the house, pictures, his cane that I bought him years ago (especially made for lefty's). I'm always saying things to them that my dad would say like "I'm gonna roll head around til you can't grow no more"! That's so corny and I never really understood what he meant, but we always laughed whenever he said it. I think its super important that you talk to them and keep him alive in their memories even though they never met. I think it helps us too.
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• United States
10 Feb 07
Yes, it does help. It is so weird to me, though.. that it's almost a nightly thing with her. She says "can you tell me something about your daddy?" Maybe she just really loves hearing about him. It's sweet. Sometimes bittersweet.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
10 Feb 07
my kids never knew my parents but we have pictures of them in the house and we talk about them often. In this way we keep part of them alive
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• United States
10 Feb 07
that's great that you talk about them often :)
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@pusiket (1756)
• Philippines
10 Feb 07
If they will ask for it. But my children's gradparents are still alive.
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