grandparenting A brief history of parenting and grandparenting BY RICHARD AND LINDA EYRE P arents and Grandparents have always existed, but putting an " ing " on them is something of recent vintage. Up until post-WWII America, " parent " was simply a name for someone who had a child, and " grandparent " was the noun for that parent's parent. Neither word was used much as a verb, and the notion of putting an " ing " at the end so the word meant a skill or an art or science had not occurred to many people. 27 GRAND FALL 2023 Continued on next page " What is fascinating to us is that Grandparenting now seems to be on the cusp of a similar kind of evolution and development. "https://www.facebook.com/GRANDmagazine