Build Relationships with the Gatekeepers
The best way to build relationships with your grandchild’s parents, AKA “gatekeepers” is to keep your comments to yourself and have your eyes and heart wide open.
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New Year’s Resolutions for Grandmas
Take some time to reflect on how your life unfolded this year, especially in the context of your role as a grandma. Then set some goals for the New Year as a grandma.
Read More »Grandmothers Are the Support Cast, Not the Star
Author Kathleen Stassen Berger shares some sage advice for grandmothers on how to be supportive of their adult children rather than overbearing or interfering.
Read More »Alienated Grandparent? I thought I was the only one.
Pat Hanson, author of “Invisible Grandparenting,” interviewed the founder of Alienated Grandparents Anonymous about her new book — “I Thought I Was the Only One: Grandparent Alienation … A Global Epidemic.”
Read More »Talk to Your Grandchildren About Their Feelings
As grandparents, we can help our grandchildren develop the skills to express their feelings by encouraging them to talk about their feelings when they have them.
Read More »Should Grandma Come on a Family Vacation?
Multigenerational travel is a popular way for families to bond and make memories. Bringing grandma on a family vacation has many benefits for everyone involved.
Read More »Great-Grandparents Are Booming
Boomer grandparents are living in a kind of sweet spot that makes us likely to become great-grandparents given our longer, healthier life spans.
Read More »Difficult Daughter-in-Law: Alienated Grandparents
Barbara Greenleaf has learned that the difficult daughter-in-law not only creates unspeakable heartache for her in-laws, but also causes serious psychological harm to her children.
Read More »What Was Grandma Thinking?
Advice columnist, Amy Dickinson gives some sage advice to a daughter-in-law and granddaughter who are dealing with a “loose cannon” of a grandma who’s thoughtless and hurtful.
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