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Forever Young: Can Grandparents and Grandkids Live Together Successfully?

GRAND Magazine Editor’s Note: This looks like a fun show to watch to see how grandparent seniors and adult grandchild aged juniors get along when living together.

Ever look at young people today and think, we are way too different to see eye to eye? You’re not the only one. A new reality show called [...]

The Mothers and Daughters-in-Law Challenge

by: Debra Karplus

By Debra Karplus, MS, OTR/L

When you and your husband were dating, umpteen years ago, and the relationship started to become serious, it became time to meet his parents. You expected that his folks would be pleasant people. But you were young, your backgrounds were so different, and when alone in the room with his [...]

Help For Grandkids That May Face Bullying

by: Caroline Sheppard

By Caroline H. Sheppard, MSW

The best time to help prevent children from becoming helpless and powerless to bullying is at an early age. Brave Bart and the Bully, is designed to empower children ages 5-10, (given one to two years on either side, taking into consideration the developmental readiness of the child), by teaching [...]

Grand Advice for Grandmas from “Gramma Good”

by: Gramma Good

Since starting, GrammaGood.com, grandmothers from all over the world have been asking for my advice on various topics, so I decided to start an advice column for GRAND readers – Ask Gramma Good!

Gramma Good is the hip matriarch of a blended family with 20 grandchildren, a cancer survivor and a wise blogger whose [...]

How a Nursing Home Visit Can be Fun for the Grandparents & the Grandkids

by: Jonathan Rosenfeld

By Jonathan Rosenfeld

You can make a visit to a nursing home fun for grandparents and grandkids

Staying in touch with family is critical for grandparents, but it can be hard for you if you live in a nursing home or even take advantage of assisted living. It doesn’t have to be that way, if [...]

Do You Need A New Perspective?

by: Grandma Sue

by Sue Gillespie (Grandma Sue)

My 4 year old, Carolyn, was just getting the hang of various measurements. She walked up to grandpa with a tape measure. She stretched it out as long as she could, and announced, “You weigh…5 o’clock!” A tape measure, a scale and a clock….all mixed up together! But from [...]

Is Your Grandchild a Bully…Or Being Bullied?

by: Dottie DeHart

By Todd Patkin

Grandparents are incredibly influential in their grandchildren’s lives. But often, they choose not to use the full measure of that influence. After all, it’s every grandparent’s prerogative to be more forgiving and lenient with grandkids than they ever would have been with their own children: Later bedtimes. Seconds on dessert. A talking-to [...]

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