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Fun in Central Illinois with your Grandchildren

By Debra Karplus

Yes, there are many activities you can do with your grandchildren in a huge city like Chicago. But while vacationing in Illinois, plan to take a roadtrip “downstate” as city folks call it, for a weekend escape from the urban life of [...]

Grand Times with your Grandchildren at the Public Library

By Debra Karplus

Libraries have changed greatly over the past few decades. No longer are they sterile places that only have books to borrow and where one must sit in silence. When was the last time you heard a librarian say ‘shhhhh’ to a patron?

Many of [...]

Girls Just Want to Have Funds

By Debra L. Karplus, MS, OTR/L

Girls just wanna to have fun, bellowed 1980s pop music icon Cyndi Lauper. Eternally young, this baby boomer was actually born in the early 1950s and is the same age as many of today’s grandparents. Lauper, probably no pauper, might have encouraged not [...]

4 Fun Free Foxfire-inspired Homespun Adventures with your Grandchildren

By Debra L. Karplus, MS, OTR/L

Once upon a time, long before Mozilla Firefox, there was Foxfire. Whether or not you considered were “counterculture”, you, may fondly remember the Foxfire magazines and books, written in the late 1960s and 1970s that told tales of mountain lore, [...]

Introducing Your Grandchild to Creative Writing

By Debra L. Karplus, MS, OTR/L

Searching for some new ideas of activities to try with your grandchildren? Kids of all ages love to tell, write, and illustrate short and not-so-shortstories. Whatever the season, wherever you are, you and your grandchildren can write stories together. Out [...]

The Gift that Keeps on Giving

By Debra L. Karplus, MS, OTR/L

It’s time for another Christmas or Chanukah, or another birthday. Selecting an appropriate gift for your grandchild can be tricky sometimes. Thatboard game that they begged for last year, that you happily purchased, is now sitting at the bottom of a shelf [...]

Your Grandchild with Asperger Syndrome

By Debra L. Karplus, MS, OTR/L

You love your grandchildren. Each of them is different from the other and as you begin to master the art of grandparenting, you learn to establish relationships with your grandchildren that cater to their individual rhythms. One may love outings with [...]