I am now going to feel very sad.
My Scottish grandparents never read to me, in fact apart from going to their house for tea on a Sunday after a walk with my father, I have no recollection of spending time with them at all. I still don't know what my mother did on those Sunday afternoons. I wonder if she was included? But that's another story.
My other grandparents were German and only visited us every couple of years and again I have no recollection of story books although I did have a German version of "Struwelpeter" (Shock-headed Peter, I think it is in English) which my mother read to me as I was bilingual until I started school.
The close relationship I hope I enjoy with my DGC is not something I would have recognised in my childhood - so perhaps we learn not only by example but from what we would have liked to experience!
CUTTING OFF A ROSE BRANCH IN NEXT DOOR'S GARDEN
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