How is loving your grandchildren different to loving your children?

Grandkids... .

Best ever! Your own kids, without their faults. And they go home . . .

I'm a recent grandfather. My grandson is 7 months old.

The love is different, but it's hard to describe the difference.
Mellower, maybe. That probably has something to do with what PUNKEY
said about them "going home."

Hmm. Mellower, that's interesting. Is that also because it is not a 'new' experience for you, and because there is less sense of responsibility?

Grandkids, you can hand them back when they start crying. (babies, obvs.)

Absolutely.

As a parent, I was always afraid that I was going to mess my kids up for life.
As it happens, they turned out just fine. Now my responsibility is to be the
support system (we're baby-sitting this afternoon) and dispenser of wise,
but largely ignored advice.