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…
DetailsTHE 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…
DetailsBy Guest Blogger Deanna Shoss Okay, this is a blatant, gratuitous pitch for the book The Grandest Love: Inspiring the Grandparent-Grandchild Connection—but it’s not what you think….I’m talking about it being a great book for MOM. And not the grandma mom, but the mom mom…or in my case, me. It’s timely to mention, seeing as…
DetailsWhat does it mean to promote a culture of forgiveness? Not ignoring signs that we may have hurt a family member, and reaching out to them with concern and humility if we have. Not masking our own hurt feelings with aloof or angry behavior that is difficult for others to decipher and address. Striving to…
Details“How’s school going” not the same bright conversation starter as it was when your grandkids were young? Busy parents not always communicating upcoming events? What’s a grandparent to do? Here are 7 ideas to learn about what’s going on at your Grandchild’s School. Check the School Website Watch the website at your grandchild’s school. Look…
DetailsBy guest blogger, Deanna Shoss, Intercultural Talk. As parents age there’s more of a yearning to share things that haven’t been shared, to feel that you are heard and known, to feel like you made a difference. For the parents, it’s wondering what will be remembered about you, your legacy. For adult children (aka me),…
DetailsWhy have a grandparents program? A number of years ago I was visiting my daughter Ellen and her family, and I volunteered to pick up her younger daughter, Kathryn (who we mostly call “Katie”), then 13, at the end of her school day. “So how was school?” I asked her, by rote. This time, Katie…
DetailsWho is more lenient…parents or grandparents? (Grandparents does seem to be the consensus). How do grandparents help working parents? How has grandparenting changed over the years? Grandparents, parents and grandchildren talk about being a part of each other’s lives. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUXFZOnEq8k&w=460&h=315]
DetailsGrandkids and grandparents share candid thoughts on their feelings about mortality as grandparents age.
Details“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.” – Rachel Carson “In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners,…
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