Far too many parents, grandparents and great grandparents fail to hold the younger generation accountable. Some are worried about maintaining a “good” family relationship. Some use the excuse of looking out for the grand or great grand children. These are all signs of weakness and excuses to hide it.

When family relationships are the most important thing they fail to be good. You enable bad behavior, at best and evil into the relationship. Discipline and accountability can be hard but they encourage growth. Enabling prevents growth because it prevents someone from suffering the consequences of their actions.

If you are raising or otherwise caring for your grand children because their parents won’t you probably need to look in the mirror for the root cause. Maybe you have and that is the real reason you are an enabler. Don’t let guilt of past failures prevent you from stepping up now. To do so just keeps dooming generation after generation. You can provide for your vulnerable grand and great grand children with out enabling the bad behavior’s of their parents. You can make sure the kids have what they NEED without bailing out the parent.

That is true Love.