9 things boys learn from their grandparents without even realising it
There's a particular kind of learning that happens at a grandparent's house, the kind that never feels like a lesson at the time. No one's sitting a kid down to teach him anything formally; it's just afternoons spent shelling peas together, evenings on the porch listening to old stories, or quietly watching a grandfather fix something instead of throwing it away. Years later, a lot of grown men trace some of their most deeply held habits and values right back to those unremarkable, ordinary hours, without ever really noticing when the lesson actually happened. Here are nine things boys often pick up from their grandparents, almost entirely by osmosis.
