If you’re the kind of person who loves nothing more than spending time with your grandchildren, you could actually be helping society’s view on older people.

A new report out of Belgium has discovered that ageist attitudes could be curbed in children as young as three.

They discovered that children who regularly spend quality time with their grandparents were less likely to become ageist, prejudice or discriminative against older people.

The survey, conducted by researchers at the University of Liège in Belgium, asked 1,151 children aged between seven and 16 about their thoughts towards older people and their own relationship with their grandparents. The results found that kids who had a better connection with their grandmas and grandpas were more accepting of other elderly people.