>> “We are managing to do nicely with no vaccines, thank you.” <<
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Same here, since the early ‘50s when vaccines reared their ugly deadly heads. (but I only have eight grand children)
It isn’t any easier to give equal attention to 8 grandkids than to 11!
If you still have young ones, stay close, because there’s a sort of ‘natural distance’ when they turn 16 or so - - maybe you know.
I know an 84 year old man who goes over to his daughter’s twice a week, for hours, to be with the 4 year old while Mom home schools.
They have a neat relationship, but his older grandkids (not the 4 year old’s siblings) not as much, because that’s what happens when they get older and want to be with their friends.
There’s a different kind of enjoyment with the older ones.
I hope this vaccine thing slowly goes away - it has consumed my entire Tuesday.