What is it about the first grandchild?

Question

Why are first grandchildren generally most favored?

Answer 1

Several reasons:

Excitement at having a small child around after so many years.

The role of grandparent is fun...spoiling the kids and doing the fun things, but not dealing with middle of the night feedings and such.

Your kids need you more...there's a lot of nervousness in first time parents and they often turn to their own parents for advice.

You spend a lot more one on one time with the oldest grandkid.

Answer 2

cuz grandparents are just happy to be grandparents a new generation to the family  

Answer 3

I have one grandchild(Im 39) he is 3 and the light of my life.My daughter and I have talked about another child(like I have a choice lol)She is worried that she wont love the 2nd as much as the 1st.Silly to me though.I am the oldest grandchild and dont feel I was the favorite.But oh well you can never love too many people I think.

Answer 4

I don't think they're favored at all.  They are just the first, so everyone is learning how to be a grandparent and making the mistakes on them.

Answer 5

Because it is the 1st baby that the grandparents can truly have fun with...they can enjoy them but give them back when they get to be too much...can't do that with your own kids...They also get to spoil them and not bother with any consequences as well as many see it as a way to correct any mistakes they might have made with their own children.

Answer 6

becuz that is when they realize that the grandparents are old.

Answer 7

if people have children they usually have them young and are usually too busy to realise they have something they made yet when people are older they are wiser and realise that this is something they made to make something else and they are happy for theyre child

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Answer 8

Just because of the fact they are the first.  Although all are loved and equally the first still holds a very special space in grandparents hearts.