The Grand Scheme of Things

If you’re a busy, tired, stressed parent looking for new ways to get your own parents to help out with the kids, and the usual guilt trips aren’t working, here’s a new angle. Tell them taking care of their grandkids is for their own good! Helping to raise your grandchildren? It’s good for your brain. Researchers “found that seniors who provided child care for their grandchildren − including watching them overnight, caring for sick grandkids, playing with them, helping with homework, making meals and driving them to school and extracurriculars − scored higher on memory and verbal fluency tests than those who were not caregivers.”