Proven…. The best advice comes from Grandparents

Advice that is passed from grandparents to adults stay with two thirds of people for the rest of their life, a UK survey has revealed.

The advice that stays with people this most is ‘good manners don’t cost anything’ followed by ‘you can only do your best’.

The research states that the typical adult retains 22 pieces of advice given by their grandparents and that 70 per cent of adults thinks the older generation is wiser than them.

It also found that grandmothers tend to give better advice than grandfathers, with one in ten respondents saying that their grandmother’s advice helped their career prospects.

A further 11 per cent said that advice from their grandmother had a positive impact on their love life. Which really goes to show that grandma knows best!

A true testament to great advice is if it is passed on, and almost two thirds of the adults polled also said they regularly pass on their grandparents’ advice onto other people.

The survey revealed the top 30 pieces of advice that grandparents pass on:

1. Good manners don’t cost anything
2. You can only do your best
3. Don’t buy what you can’t afford
4. Treat others the way you would like to be treated
5. A smile can get you a long way
6. You don’t get something for nothing
7. Practice makes perfect
8. Never accept a lift off a stranger
9. Work hard at school because qualifications are the one thing that can’t be taken from you
10. Family first
11. If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all
12. Don’t ask, don’t get
13. No such word as can’t
14. Neither a lender nor borrower be
15. Don’t swim after eating
16. I want never gets
17. Never go to bed on an argument
18. Never drink alcohol on an empty stomach
19. A happy marriage is the foundation to a happy family
20. Never go out with wet hair
21. Set your watch five minutes fast
22. Patience and perseverance is the key to success
23. Friendship is a gift not a possession
24. Always take your coat off when you come in, or you’ll get cold when you go out
25. Always get out of life what you put in to it
26. Less is more
27. People will forget how you look, but won’t forget how you made them feel
28. Never let your petrol tank go lower than a quarter full
29. Always have six months’ rent or mortgage saved
30. Life will have high peaks and low valleys, and neither is forever. Enjoy the peaks, pull yourself out of the valleys and keep going

What do you think about this list… Do any of these statements sound familiar…? What is the best piece of advice you have given or received?