Teaching Moments

It should be forbidden
for grandchildren to be
in possession of 
greater knowledge than
their grandparents. At
the very least that
knowledge shielded
from the frail elderly
for whom the shock
can prove fatal. Is it
too much to ask that
those whom grandparents
bundled with care against
the cold, spoonfed with
patience, watched over
as they slept
fretted when they were ill
accompanied on their
first day at Kindergarten
and encouraged to
attend university hoping
they would star
academically and join
a profession though
nothing would make
grandparents prouder
than they already are
might take the trouble
to be sensitive to  the
opportunity given them
and denied the other
stifling the impulse to
teaching moments?