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Aug262016

Will You Be the next Super Grandparent Profile?

UncategorizedBy jwitkovskyAugust 26, 2016Leave a comment

The Grandest Love wants to know more about you! Will you answer the five questions below and be a featured Grandparent on The Grandest Love? Thanks to Michelle McConnell for being our first featured grandma. Please copy and paste the questions below and email them to grandestlove (at) interculturaltalk.com. How do you want to stay…

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Jul252016

On Making Memories

Grandparents Matter, LIving LegacyBy jwitkovskyJuly 25, 2016Leave a comment

As older adults, we sometimes feel as if we’ve seen and done it all; there is little that surprises us anymore.  An awareness of loss, of time growing shorter, may preoccupy us. But The Grandest Love takes us to an oasis in time and space, an oasis where promise – not loss – reigns.  No…

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Jul142016

Marathoner, Global Activist, Corporate Professional, Grandma

Grandparents MatterBy jwitkovskyJuly 14, 20162 Comments

  Talk about “The New Face of Grandparenting.” Michelle McConnell turns 50 this year. She is a marathoner (actually running 50 miles this year for her 50 years) and global activist to bring awareness and prevent child slavery and trafficking (115M are victims in world today). She just wrapped up a 22 for 22 Challenge…22 push-ups every day…

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Jul82016

Grandma Studies Sports Page to Connect to Grandson

Grandparents MatterBy jwitkovskyJuly 8, 20161 Comment

By Guest Blogger Deanna Shoss We were sitting at the dinner table at Fitz’s in St. Louis last week. While my husband, son and I chatted at one end of the table, I overheard my mom getting a momentary-oh-so-cherished-one-on-one with her grandson, my 15 year old nephew, an avid St. Louis Blues hockey fan. “So,…

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Jun242016

Questions to Get Your Teenage Grandchild Talking

Intergenerational, TeenagersBy jwitkovskyJune 24, 20166 Comments

That adorable child who couldn’t get enough of “nana” and “poppop” now sits sullenly across the table. They are, at least, honoring the “no cell phones at the dinner table” rule, but you sit in silence. You, wishing for a connection. They seemingly, wishing it were over. Questions like “How’s school?” or “What are your…

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Helpful Ideas for Grandparents Preparing to Raise Grandchildren

Grandparents Matter, IntergenerationalBy jwitkovskyJune 13, 2016Leave a comment

Author Jerry Witkovsky, MSW, was recently asked for his insights to help grandparents establish solid bonds from the get go, as they prepare for grandchildren to move in with them. Says The Dollar Stretcher, “The change in routines can be stressful, so we reached out to Jerry Witkovsky, author of The Grandest Love: Inspiring the…

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May272016

Fun Friday…GRAND Thoughts from Grand Thinkers

Grandparents MatterBy jwitkovskyMay 27, 20164 Comments

I could talk for hours about my favorite topic…grandchildren! But I am not the only one… “The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we…

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May32016

NSCI Teachers Learn to Blog

Grandparents Matter, School ConnectionBy jwitkovskyMay 3, 2016Leave a comment

Thanks to the enthusiasm and support of author Jerry Witkovsky, teachers at the religious school at North Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, IL, got a lesson on blogging. “We think this will help us communicate better with parents and grandparents,” says Dr. Roberta Goodman, Education Director at NSCI. “I am so excited to be using…

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Apr262016

Kenny’s Pennies: Teaching About Money to Young Children

Grandparents Matter, LIving LegacyBy jwitkovskyApril 26, 2016Leave a comment

While I started my family on The Four Jars at 13 with $20 a month for a year, Kenny remembers the piggy bank that sat on Grandma’s dresser when he was growing up. When he would come to visit, Grandma would empty the coins onto the kitchen table, and Kenny would get to count out…

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Apr132016

Remembering Grandma….Grandparents Do It Too!

Grandparents MatterBy jwitkovskyApril 13, 2016Leave a comment

THE COUNTER AT WOOLWORTH’S Now that I’m a grandfather myself, I realize it is the simple things that create indelible memories for grandchildren.  I remember one Saturday when I was five or six years old, my Grandma Rosie took me downtown on the old Red Car streetcar line, to the grand old Los Angeles Theater…

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