#especially when they've gone through the effort to get vetted

[margridarnauds]

I get being worried and skeptical about where your money is going, especially when it involves hot button political issues, but some of these posts are, like, actually heartless.

[k3nnjamin]

really obsessed with Retired Bruce / Grandpa Bats and especially with him getting real into community service. Like at a certain point funding public programs just doesn't cut it, especially if the people you're asking to handle the money and programs are susceptible to Gotham city's very favorite activity: corruption. So Bruce feels the need to go in and do it himself basically. Somehow by retiring from Batman, Bruce's schedule gets 10x more packed and he is EVERYWHERE doing absolutely everything he can to keep just one more person safe and alive and cared for.

Some things he does are directly for his kids. He helps out at the animal shelter / vet clinic where Damian works, walking dogs and playing with kittens. He helps them all find homes.

He works at the soup kitchens and the animal rescues and the shelters.

Bruce builds and funds so many rehabilitation centers and orphanages. And he doesn't just fund them, he visits regularly and takes time to greet everyone who passes through with a smile and a compliment. He buys them presents and tells them stories about batman and his boys and what he remembers about his parents. He makes such an effort to get to know these people inside and out so they never have to feel alone or like no one believes them when corruption and abuse inevitably arise. He's not the Bat anymore but that part of his brain telling him that he can save "just one more person" never gets the memo for as long as he lives.

He takes his grandkids along too when they come to visit. The pride and joy of his life. He shows them off, yeah, what proud grandpa wouldn't? But most importantly he puts them to work. Sure, he knows his children are more than capable of raising sweet, compassionate, hardworking kids, but Bats is still apart of him and it wouldn't be right if Bruce didn't see to it himself that these ideals were engrained in his grandkids. And he'll do it right this time.

He explains to them the importance of showing compassion to everyone because you don't know where they've been or where they're going.

He talks about his strange history with their Uncle Jason and how every action has a consequence, good or bad.

He stresses most of all the responsibility they have-- because he still has an exorbitant amount of money despite the decades of trying to give it all away, and all that money is going to them when he's gone-- to give away their abundance.

There are a couple less noble life lessons thrown in there about trusting your intuition and NOT trusting everyone you meet and saying i'm sorry (Dick or Jason or any of the other bats tbh overhears Bruce (gently) lecturing their kid about saying sorry to their sibling and goes "yeah, your grandpa would know a thing or two about that," and immediately launches into a story about a time that the two of them weren't on speaking terms for a month because Bruce refused to apologize for something insignificant. The man turns bright red as the Batkids all laugh around him. His grandchildren stare on in horror, "grandpa, you really didn't speak to mom/dad for a month.. that's like forever!")