Grandparents Have a Sacred Role During COVID-19
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.
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Get Your Grandchildren’s Thoughts on the Pandemic
Try this creative family activity to show and tell how you and your grandchildren are feeling during this pandemic.
Read More »Distance Grandparenting With Young Grandchildren
We’re missing our physical connections with our young grandchildren. They don’t understand why we must restrict our contact with them. Now is the time to help our grandchildren feel relaxed and have fun on virtual visits.
Read More »Can You Talk to Your Daughter-in-law?
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.
Read More »When Grandparents Are Estranged From Their Grandchildren
At heart, estrangement from grandchildren reflects estrangement from adult children, the gatekeeper middle generation that can promote or deny access.
Read More »25 Simple Steps for Keeping Balance in Your Life
If we can take a few small steps every day to keep our physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being in balance, it will help us to get through these uncertain times and feel like we have some control over our lives.
Read More »It’s Not a Competition With The “Other” Grandma
When grandparents compete with the “other” grandparents, nobody wins, including the grandchildren. Our grandchildren thrive when they have lots of grandparents who love them.
Read More »Finding Hope & Staying Sane During the Pandemic [Part 2]
Many in our generation believe things are not going to get back to normal in our lifetime. Karen Gould urged us to find hope now and gave us strategies to practice during these uncertain times.
Read More »Finding Hope & Staying Sane During the Pandemic [Part 1]
Psychotherapist Karen Gould, LMFT, explains why we’re feeling so anxious during the pandemic and provides some tools for reducing our anxiety.
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