Burgeoning adulthood...I have a wonderful gift. I was not born with it, but I did develop it due to conditions. It is not confined to a few and can be found throughout the world when circumstances allow. It is called the “Nana gene” and will be unfailingly discovered wherever Nanas exist.
Necessary to discovering the Nana gene are the required cadre of grandchildren, the beloved offspring of beloved offspring who continue to need (at least in the mind of the on-site Nana) the ministrations of a doting grandparent. The trick on the Nana’s part is knowing that older grandchildren, often adults with responsibilities themselves, are better dealt with at more subtle, distant levels. Who but someone with a Nana gene does the washing for grown children? Nanas often tend to forget that these older children will not become again the cozy, smiling youngsters who were happily satisfied with an ice cream cone. In the pursuit of their adulthood, they may no longer welcome the Nanaview of them as cute, winsome kids,so it seems that when youngsters grow up, Nanas may have to also. And when the conditions that caused the Nana gene to develop do change, the Nana gene itself may need to develop into something that supports burgeoning adulthood.
The "Grampa gene"....
http://More Essays About Everything is now available on AmazonOf course, in the world of expanding genetics, there are many other genes that come into being depending on conditions. There is, for instance, the counterpart of the Nana gene, which is the “Grampa gene,” which is embodied in the man who can now grow his own whiskers as he oversees the generations that have come after him. He, too, will eventually have to adjust the Grampa gene just as Nana gene possessors have and grow up in new ways also. Then there is also the “fix-it gene”, which is developed often by Nanas and Grampas as a new way to keep kids in line… but this is a subject for another day!
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