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Yikes! Your Grandchild Wants to Get Pierced

Editor’s Note: Piercings are everywhere and it’s quite a temptation for your teenage grandchildren to want to fit in with the “in” crowd. You, as the grandparent, may not have any say in this matter, but you can know some of the risks and speak intelligently with your grandchild about some of the problems or [...]

Grandparents and Parents Now Have a New Safety Tool Available to Keep Kids Safe

AlertID Now Provides Free Sex Offender Alerts

Editor’s Note: As a mom and grand mom, my top priority is to keep my kids, and now my grand kids, safe. There is nothing scarier than knowing that there is a registered child sex offender near by. When I read the following, I thought [...]

Grandparents Beware: Synthetic Marijuana is Available at a Store Near Your Grandkids

 

By Marsha Reece, Special Reporter for GRAND Magazine

It looked innocent, according to Domminick. After all, the cashier in the liquor store was smoking it to push sales. Domminick, who quit smoking marijuana six years ago, thought this could give him the high he wanted without the threat of jail time. He said [...]

How Do You Keep Your GRANDbaby Safe?

By: Joyce Davis, Co-Founder and President of Keeping Babies Safe

Grandparents and Parents alike know the importance of making the most informed decisions when it comes to keeping their grandchildren and children safe in their nursery. There are so many products on the market today that may or may not be safe, so informed decision [...]

Summer Without the Slide

It’s the perfect time to exercise your grandkids’ minds

By Brenda Zofrea

 

Don’t let summer fun mean “summer slide” for your grandkids. Summer slide is the term that refers to the learning gains that children lose when they’re not reading and involved in educational activities over the summer. So why is preventing summer slide [...]

What Can Grandparents Learn from the Jerry Sandusky Child Abuse Case?

By: James M. Hmurovich, President & CEO, Prevent Child AbuseAmerica

Now that Jerry Sandusky has been found guilty of child sexual abuse, the question before us as a nation is: What have we learned?

We have learned that communities are prepared to come together and support healthy, happy childhoods and the prevention of child sexual [...]

6 Steps Grandparents Can Take to Prevent Bullying Of Or By Your Preschool-aged Grandchildren

By: Diane Lane

The recent news story about the grandmother being bullied by kids on the bus struck a cord with all of us. Parents and grandparents play a huge role in the prevention of bullying. If a child doesn’t know how to express themselves they will become frustrated, angry and act out either towards [...]