Grandpa Reports • 1

Juice Pouches

Photo by Lee Starlin

If you ever forget what love feels like, have grandchildren.

I took care of my grandson Preston three days a week (while my daughter and son-in-law worked) from the time he was a baby until he went to Kindergarten. I used to send my daughter “Grandpa Reports” about what we did that day or something funny Preston said.

I have decided to take the Grandpa Report concept and use it for the benefit of all humanity. Or at least make you smile. I will be sharing some of the things I have learned, plus some of the things I have seen and heard in my Grandpa Reports.

I understand parents are busy, and those pre-packaged lunch meals for kids are convenient. But the juice pouches they put in them are the worst! I keep stabbing and stabbing until the straw breaks and still no luck. I can’t get it go in!

It’s like the Psycho shower scene, except it is me screaming! I think they are grandparent proof.

Start practicing now, before you have children. Maybe by the time you have grandkids, you might be able to get the straw in one.

Mark Starlin has been a grandparent for 12 years and has the bruises to prove it.