Grandparents' brag thread

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My DiL said to her 4 year old son in a plane 'Look at that tiny little ship down there', He looked at her witheringly and then said in a patient voice 'it's not really tiny Mummy, It's just far away' !!

This wasn't my grandchild but a 4 year old girl I met on the train to Waterloo. She was with her dad and she was drawing on a cardboard monkey with a felt pen. She showed me how she had drawn eyeliner and lipstick round it's eyes and mouth so Daddy said "Why don't you draw her a pair of earrings? There was a long pause and then she said "She's a Monkey! Monkeys don't wear earrings!" Collapse of entire carriage

it's simple, our 8 year old DGD and 2 year old DGS are the best. simples(grin)

Oh go on then. My 5 year old gd is bilingual. She now corrects her daddy on his German and her mummy on her English. She will, naturally, be taking her PhD shortly.

GD4 loves playing Minecraft. She was guiding her figure around looking for the house she had made and said to me, "I'm lost, I'm absolutely lost."

My 18 month dgs has a new word.....
'may-yong-aze'! How good is that for his age? It also sounds very cute!

My Grandson won 'Outstanding Man of the Match' in his rugby match today.

ginny well done that young man, how proud are you!!

Thanks Nannyloves shopping. Very proud. DGS is 13 and has struggled with his co ordination. He has been desperate to get into a school team and has worked so hard.

Well, sorry but I do want to brag! My grandson has just got a 2/1 at Oxford.....nothing unusual there except he is Dyslexic, at 9 years old was three years behind his peers at school, had to have a scribe as no-one could understand a word he wrote as he was just as likely to write backwards as forwards, and his spelling was original to say the least. He has worked so hard to get where he is and I am so proud of him I could burst!

So you should be MargaretinNorthant well done him.

margaretinnorthant and so you should be proud, that is a wonderful achievement, many congratulations and here's to a great future for him.

margaret I'm tearing up reading this. What an absolutely marvellous achievement, and against all odds he's made such a success of his life so far. (nearest thing to a gold star I can do

So, what next, does he have any plans, do you know?

margaretinnorthant you have every right to be proud of your GS. What a super achievement. Good luck to him for his (bright) future.

That's brilliant MargaretinNorthant

It just shows you!!!!

Alishka
He is now a qualified Micro-Biologist and has had a second interview for a job, we are waiting to hear if he has got it. I didn't hear all the job entailed, but it involved writing up research for magazines and writing those awful little leaflets you get in your box of pills. HE said it was translating Doctor speak into English. He is such a lovely boy, has never used his Dyslexia as an excuse, and the poor lad did struggle so with his reading, he said the letters jumped about all over the page. I am so proud of him

I think this is a wonderful thread, hopefully it'll stop me showing photos to all and sundry and boring them to death about my GC, who I adore! The British are very good at being humble, wouldn't it be wonderful if we all kept a 'brag' book about ourselves and our own achievements, even if we were the only ones to look at it!

My young grandson Finlay aged 8 has tonight made his debut for the youth academy of Motherwell Fc,the team I have supported all my life,and he scored a screamer of a goal,well done Finlay from a very proud Nana ⚽️? X

Not sure if this counts but DD had her gender scan at 16 weeks & it's clear, as can be at that gestation, that it's a boy - so happy she cried so that's boy No 3 for her, funnily enough I didn't have strong feelings for the gender either way, though suspect DDiL is going to have a girl

That's great Scooter58 he must be pretty good!

Thanks Deeda,he's doing okay so far,takes after his Nana?(I played football for years),he's quite in demand at the moment,Rangers,Kilmarnock and Hamilton have all asked him to train with them but he's chosen my team at the moment hence why I am all chuffed ??,only 8 though so the important thing is he is having fun and enjoying it ⚽️⚽️⚽️

I've just seen a picture of my daughter and first grandson (21) together smiling. He's autistic and had a few bumps along the way. He hasn't been able to get a job since leaving college and has hardly come out of his bedroom for months. Just eating sweets and playing games. ( anyone who has dealt with autism knows trying to persuade them to do somthing they don't want to do is near impossible) well he's got a job in a shop that sells mobile phones. I don't want to get my hopes up too much just in case but it would be nice to think he was settled and one less worry for me! Selfish I know.

Aw that's brilliant morethan,no wonder you are proud.Good luck to him in his new job.