sandra you will love being a grandmother. I can't think of anything I love more. I actually don't put up with any rudeness from any of my five grandchildren and they love me to bits. No one has to be a doormat and children do need to learn at an early age that they need to be polite, kind and nice to other people, whether it's their parents, grandparents, siblings, other adults or their friends. It's the same as sharing, they need to learn that they have to share, these sorts of things are best learnt at an early age.
I always tell all of them that I love them. The five year old is not as affectionate as the others, he is like this with everyone and was not a cuddly baby. He gets kissed and hugged the same as the others, I can't help myself, he moans but puts up with it. He was explaining to me last time I was staying that I could live with them. One thing I will never do and that is to have favourites, I love them all and I always tell them so.
Basing23 recently my grandson didn't want to hold my hand when we were crossing a busy road on the way to school, he was carrying on all the way and he knew I was really cross with him. I felt bad when we arrived at his school and when his mother came home I told her what had happened and she said he had done the same to her father and to her before. My grandson was happy when I picked him up that day, the morning incident forgotten. He is a child and as much as I love him I won't tip toe around him.