9 Of The Rudest Things New Grandparents Can Do
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"We didn’t need company or an audience, we needed help and compassion."
They may come to the hospital to meet their new grandchild, or perhaps introductions happen over video chat. In the emotional rush, sometimes grandparents do or say things that rub parents the wrong way.
We asked members of the HuffPost Parents Facebook community for some of the rudest things that they have seen grandparents do when a new baby arrives. Here’s what they had to say.
1. Refusing to use the name the baby’s parents gave them.
“[My mother] doesn’t like my son’s name (Elijah) so she refused to call him by it. Instead she would say ‘That little boy’ or ‘That little baby,’ as if he didn’t have a name.” — China Shock
“My Aunt didn’t like the name I’d chosen for my firstborn son (Zachary) so just decided to rename him and continue to refer to him as ‘Joshua.’” — Maria Harris
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