Matt Timberlake has written a great article about grandparents' role in raising children. Here's an excerpt:
... this week is all about Grandparent time. A bit of pan-generational culture mixing and world expanding. My father in law, like me, has worked quite a bit with The Urban Child Institute. This doesn’t make us automatic baby-raising geniuses, but it does plug us into a wealth of practical knowledge about how young kids’ brains develop, and how that development impacts who children become as adults in our community.