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4 Tips for Explaining Health Problems to Grandchildren

By Paula Spencer Scott, senior editor at Caring.com

Too often, the youngest members of the family are ignored when a health crisis or problem strikes. They may ask, “What’s happening?” and be brushed off. Or the answer to “Is Grandpa going to be all right?” is a curt (and not always realistic) “Of course!” [...]

Overcompensation: How Not to Deal with a Troubled Grandchild

It takes nurturing and discipline to raise grandchildren who are struggling with the absence or loss of a parent

By Sylvie de Toledo, LCSW/BCD

 

Henrietta Casper has a problem. Her 15-year-old grandson is defiant and disrespectful. When she tells him he can’t go out at night, he just walks [...]

Google Translation, Anyone?

The Issue: Billy Crystal and Bette Midler did it! Battled with generational child-rearing clashes in their recent movie, “Parental Guidance”. While the movie puts a humorous face on the whole issue, viewers can empathize with the grandparents feeling overwhelmed and just plain lost. Their daughter (played by Marissa Tomei) corrected them on their language. “No”, [...]

When a Child Is Removed from the Parents’ Home

Kinship care options and advice for grandparents of kids in the child-welfare system

By Cathleen J. Newbanks

 

The Fostering Connections Act (2009) mandates that child-welfare workers locate and contact relatives within 30 days of a child being removed from the custody of their parent(s). Research has shown that children removed from their [...]

Discipline Debate?

The Issue: Depends on your definition. Or is it your age or culture? As reported in the Washington Post Magazine earlier this year, a growing number of child advocates in the US. are working towards an end to corporal punishment. A total legal ban on spanking in all settings has been passed by 33 nations [...]

5 Tips to Make Your Grandchild’s Visit to a Nursing Home a Happy One

By Nicole Fonovich, author of Luca Lashes and his First Trip to the Nursing Home, from the “Luca Lashes” interactive app and eBook series

Visiting an older parent or grandparent in a nursing home is enough of a challenge for most busy adults today. Add bringing the kids along, and this job just got a [...]

New Age Nanas: Being a grandmother in the 21st century

Being a grandmother is one of life’s most important roles, and many women can feel unprepared to take it on.

New Age Nanas: Being a Grandmother in the 21st Century — a new self-help book by retired social scientists, grandmothers, and long-time friends Doreen Rosenthal and Susan Moore — presents the [...]