Traveling around the world, can not help you pay attention to how many foreign tourist groups of old ladies. It feels that these grandmothers declining years absolutely nothing to do at home or they make up for missed opportunities to visit abroad in his youth. Oddly enough, but this is partly because it is - a foreigner not in a hurry to bury themselves at the entrances of the old courtyard or summer beds. And the fact that our pensioner seems a frivolity, for foreign women - the norm. Namely - life begins at retirement!
As they do?
Of course, any compatriot think, looking at the well-groomed pensioner from the West, they are well paid for life on the job, and now a good pension, why not live for themselves. But, according to psychologists, is not so much the amount of the pension, but in the mentality.
1. Foreigners very jealously guard their freedom, not allowing himself to a waste of time even to their own children and grandchildren. Being of working age, they give strength to their careers and hobbies, defining children to the care of nannies or child care centers.
2. Foreign women do not suffer that sacrifice, which is peculiar to our own, they cherish their health, not start and time treated their sores, do not allow yourself to be "comfort eating", try to be physically active.
3. Working necessarily make bank deposits and keep the accumulation is not for children and grandchildren, but only for themselves. Financial assistance to the parents usually ends once the child turns 18 years old. Gifts and other signs of kinship, of course, accepted, but pull your family budget or their children constantly coddle they will not be with their grandchildren.
However, we must pay tribute to the banking systems abroad - burning up the contributions there is almost unthinkable phenomenon. It turns out that in retirement, grandmother "good old Europe" does not sit on a bench and begin to travel, the benefit amount for retirement accumulated solid.
but on the other hand
But all of the above is, of course, "the ideal to aim for." Each shiny coin has a flip side. How not to recall rapidly tolsteyuschee American society, where obesity is becoming almost a childhood disease? Such young people are unlikely to retain health to retirement.
How not to recall French women who save on everything, and even chicken bones are not thrown to first, do not cook broth.
A Polish lady (not all, but many) would not merge the water after taking a bath, and will wash it down the toilet.
All this information is seeping into our country by immigrants, went to the West for permanent residence. And they provide a basis even with some affection to look at our grandmothers, great-grandchildren touching kata in elegant carriages.
