My Relationship With My Parents: Different Roles In My Family

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Throughout my entire life, there is not a time when I can think that my grandparents were not involved in my life. When thinking about my relationship with my grandparents there are many different things that come to mind. My grandparents and I have always been super close. I am always over at their house helping them do different things, going shopping together, eating dinner together, and so much more.
When reading in the textbook there are five styles of grandparents that have emerged. They are formal, fun seeker, surrogate parent, reservoir of family wisdom, and distant figure. When thinking about my grandparents I would say that they fall into mainly one category. My grandparents would fall into the fun seeker category. My grandparents …show more content…

The compensation model and life-course model would be the ones that resemble our family the most. Over the years our family has changed. My father works a lot and is not at home as much as my mother would like. My mother is involved in several local organizations that volunteer all over our community, and works at a local gift shop. Before I was able to drive, sometimes my mother would have to get my grandparents to pick us up from school, and different activities. Sure they did not mind, they loved getting to spend so much time with us. I feel that because of this it strengthened our relationship and made me realize how lucky I was to have them in my life. If it were not for them I would not of been able to do a lot of the different activities that I did as child with my parents working and volunteering. My grandparent’s are always helping me decide what I need to do with my life. If my mom and I are not able to figure out how we need to do something, we go and ask my grandmother. Just the other day I was home for an engagement party and I had two different dresses that my mom and I could not decide between. I took both dresses over to my grandparents house and tried them both on and let them decide which one would be the best for the occasion. It’s the little things like this that show me how much influence that they have on my life and

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