Alex Clark

You know, our grandparents would sign us up for swim lessons and I'd be playing outside and butterfly catching and, you know, all these different things, going to their church with them and learning, you know, meeting those kids at their church.

And there was just so many things going to vacation Bible school in that town where my grandparents lived.

It's like, that's another thing.

I

We did fine apart from our parents.

Of course, we were excited to see them whenever they came to get us at the end of it.

But I feel so sad.

One, and I'm not going to blame this totally on the parents, because I think a lot of grandparents are not wanting to be grandparents.

I feel like they're more interested in spending all their money and going on cruises and things like that than it is pouring into their grandchildren.

Are you noticing that, too?

Do you have parents coming in complaining that the grandparents don't want to be involved?

Thank you.

That's so sweet.

I think, you know, for me growing up, saying that something felt too hard or too uncomfortable was really not an option.

I was 18 years old, graduated high school, decided I was going to delay going away to college in Chicago so that I could intern at my favorite radio station.

My dad's crazy.

complaint was, why are you going to drive all the way to downtown Louisville, pay to park for an unpaid internship?

And I was like, because I got to do this, dad.

This is how you create a career.

So I need to be an unpaid intern.