Common wisdom may suggest that due to their age, grandmothers are not appropriate caretakers for babies and little kids.
Of course, they may have years and years of parenting experience from raising their own kids, however people over 50 simply cannot run as quickly or react as fast as young parents. And they presumably get tired more quickly and must desire to take a load off even more frequently than the most exhausted parent.
Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have, in contrast to what people may think, turned that assumption upside-down.
It turns out that kids taken care of by a grandmother have half the risk of injury than children taken care of by a daycare center, other relatives, or even the kid's own mother.
In other words, if grandma looks after the children, they are much less likely to end up in the paediatrician’s office with a fracture or a case of bleeding.
Read more at https://5amily.com/grandma/blog/why-grandmas-make-the-best-babysitters
