Babysitting grandmums worth pounds 1bn.DOTING dote intr.v. dot·ed, dot·ing, dotes To show excessive fondness or love: parents who dote on their only child. [Middle English doten. grandparents are saving their children more than pounds 1bn a year in babysitting fees, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new survey. Almost 50% of the 1,001 grandparents surveyed for the Abbey National bank said they regularly spend time with their grandchildren. The poll found that grandparents spent at least 40 days every year looking after younger grandchildren (under 12) with grandma taking on the lion's share of the work. On average she sits with them for an hour-and-a-half each occasion, with grandad managing only an average 79 minutes. The survey compared the figures with other answers given by respondents recalling the time they spent with their own grandparents two generations ago. Only 6% of the grandparents asked said that their grandparents would regularly spend time with them. Janet O'Connor, Abbey National's Retail Marketing Director, said: ``It seems grandparents are stepping up their stakes in the babysitting market not a moment too soon. ``With more mums than ever before working at least part-time, coupled with the delay in independence for today's children Today's Children was the first nationally syndicated radio soap opera in the United States. Created and written by Irna Phillips, it aired from flagship station WMAQ in Chicago from 1932 to 1938, and later in national syndication (without the involvement of WMAQ) from 1943 , time-harried UK parents are thanking their lucky stars for this boom in trustworthy and reliable care. ``Grandparents are becoming an integral part of the modern family.'' |
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