During the pandemic, many of us grandmas have had to sacrifice our in-person visits with our grandchildren for the sake of our health. Here are six fun activities you can enjoy in a virtual visit with your young grandchildren.
Read More »How can we do our own grandparent thing to help our entitled grandkids learn about the importance and satisfaction of things like work, saving, delayed gratification, and self-reliance? This article by Richard and Linda Eyre explains four ways to teach our grandchildren to earn and do for themselves.
Read More »Playing board games and card games with your grandchild creates many opportunities for learning beyond just the game itself. One of the most important lessons is how to compete and win or lose gracefully.
Read More »We gain huge physical, mental, and psychological benefits for both ourselves and our adult child when we have a good parent/adult-child relationship. We have way more to lose and way more to gain when that happens.
Read More »Emily Morgan, author, and grandma of 9 grandchildren hosts the Grand Life podcast. In a recent episode, “Do Grandparents Matter,” she explores how the Pandemic has triggered some hard questions for Emily that are bigger than grandparenting.
Read More »A great-grandma who has a close bond with her daughter and granddaughter wrote to ask for advice after being denied access to her granddaughter’s preemie.
Read More »Grandparents have a sacred role to help foster empathy, self-understanding, kindness, and acceptance in our grandchildren simply by our ordinary attention — now more than ever before.
Read More »The coronavirus pandemic has upended the daily lives of Americans, and for many of us 70 million grandparents, contact with our young grandchildren has been cut off and we feel adrift.
Read More »The mother and daughter-in-law relationship can be fragile or tense when the grown man in the middle must show his loyalty to his wife and put his mother second.
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