![]() ![]() But Viv, who nursed for six years and helped Grant run the family business for 20, is in grandma heaven. ![]() Some days she leaves home at 7.30am arriving back at 7.30pm to find husband Grant “patiently waiting”. Awed, we listen to “retired” Viv’s working week: nappies, meal preparation, music group, kindy pickups, baby bathing. All eyes turn admiringly to Viv Robertson, 56, (above) who’s acquired six grandchildren in six years: three-month-old Abigail, two-year-old twins Dominic and Oliver, Keeley, two, Brynn four and Riely six. At our North Shore reunion dinners photos are flourished and the score updated: Lyn, Robyn, Noelene, Pauline, Kay, Pennie, Jan and Jenny: nil Liz: one Kay and Brenda: two apiece. Welcome to The Grandparent Trap.Īround age 50 a ritual started among the Westlake Swans - the women’s crew I used to row for. For one battling band the familial ties are more like manacles. The best thing about grandchildren is that after hours of happy chat and storybooks you can hand them back and head home to blessed silence and a G&T.Įxcept, as JENNY CHAMBERLAIN discovers, grandparenting is changing, getting tougher, more demanding. ![]() N orth and South Article – July 2003 The grand parent trap ![]()
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