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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!” [...]

The Benefits of Mother’s Milk for Your Grandchild

 

By Debra L. Karplus

Your new grandchild has arrived. Your daughter or daughter-in-law is excited to share with you that she will be nourishing the new baby with mother’s milk. Possibly you breastfed your babies, or perhaps you tried and found it too challenging for a [...]

The Perfect Grandparent

Submitted by Ann Schmidt, Bethesda, MD

A woman in a supermarket is following a grandfather and his badly behaved 3-year-old grandson. It’s obvious to her that he has his hands full with the child screaming for candy in the candy aisle, cookies in the cookie aisle and for fruit, cereal and soda in the other [...]

How Not To Be An Overweight Grandma Or Grandpa

By Rachel Berman RD, Director of Nutrition at CalorieCount.com

More than 1 in 3 adults in the United States are currently obese, which comes along with a myriad of health concerns such as diabetes and heart disease. But what’s to blame for the obesity epidemic? Too much fat? Sugar? Fast food? While all of these [...]

Are the Grandmas and Grandpas Responsible for Connecting the Generations?

By Corrie Lynn Player

Last week, I started musing about that wonderful stage of life that makes up for the infirmities of age — grandparenting. I said that grandparents can influence, for good, their grandchildren in very specific ways, the most important of which are the creation, implementation and continuance of traditions.

I’d like to [...]

Mazda 5…Hot Car for Cool Grandpas and Grandmas

By Jonathan Micocci – GRAND Magazine Car Reviewer

Minivans are one of those concessions to maturity, like flossing or balancing your checkbook, right? So what happens when a performance car company, Mazda, builds a minivan, and offers it at a value price? We had a week with a Mazda 5 to find out if practicality, [...]

Grandma and Grandpa are the Unsung Heroes of the Autism Epidemic

By Julie Obradovic

Julie Obradovic is a Contributing Editor to Age of Autism

A recent post on The Thinking Mom’s reminded me about the roles grandparents play in the autism epidemic. I believe in many cases they are the unsung heroes of much of what we’ve been able to accomplish in the pursuit of [...]