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Where have all the grandparents gone?

Navigating Modern Parenthood Without the Village

REMEMBER those days when you’d sit in your grandma’s kitchen, helping her clean vegetables? She’d share old wives’ tales that ranged from hilarious to downright spooky, like how going out after dark without shoes could attract the bogeyman, or how pulling your hair could stop a cough.

And let’s not forget learning maths and accounting with grandpa, who always had a newspaper in hand and a story to tell.

They were, of course, also abreast of the best conspiracy theories and knew everything

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