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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Guardian community team

Grandparents in the UK: share your experiences of helping with childcare

If you look after your grandchildren for short stints or days at a time, we want to know what care you provide.
If you look after your grandchildren for short stints or days at a time, we want to know what type of care you provide. Photograph: Maskot/Getty Images

Whether you do the school run every morning or have your grandchildren to stay for the odd night so that their parents can paint the town red – or catch up on sleep – we want to hear from grandparents in the UK about the ways in which they look after their grandchildren.

A recent article in The Atlantic posited that older Americans might be doing more grandparenting than ever – and might be reaching their limit. Yet there is also a reputation that “boomers” are too busy playing golf, sipping cocktails and “laughing while their millennial children are suffering” to put in any grunt work with their offspring’s offspring.

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