Parenting is an important and demanding role that presents a great challenge. Because of the life tempo and numerous responsibilities life assigns, parents often turn to their parents for help in raising their children. Grandparents represent the most natural replacement for parents in raising the grandchildren and because of their life experience they can be the source of knowledge, talents and skills. Their presence and help may make it easier for a child to develop into a full person, so they must be aware how much of role models they are for their grandchildren to follow and copy. The results of the empirical part of this paper lead us to the conclusion that there are advantages and disadvantages that come with active involvement of grandparents in the lives of the family. The two mothers who had the help from their parents in the upbringing of the child, emotional, physical, and not any less important, the material support of the grandparents’ in child raising, greatly facilitated their parental role. The lack of active involvement of grandparents is excessive interference in child’s upbringing, giving up and disregarding the boundaries that parents set for their child. Mothers who did not have the help of their parents stated that the advantage of not having grandparents in raising grandchildren was that the children had only one authority or were raised solely according to their parental rules. Regardless of the above-mentioned shortcomings and no matter how times can change, the fact is that parenting is much easier with the support of grandparents. The most beautiful gift that grandmothers can give to their grandchildren is, first and foremost, unconditional love and support. Key words: stages