Songs grandparents grew up with are needed now BY PAT HANSON, PH.D. I just took an OLLI (Osher Life Long Learning Institute) adult education class on music icons of the
Why You Should Often Ignore Your Child’s Opinion of You As A Parent BY DR. JOSHUA COLEMAN I think one of the hardest tasks of being an estranged parent is countering
Healing Relationships Between Parents and Grandparents by Susan Stiffelman Maybe an innocent but misunderstood remark to a son or daughter-in-law triggered a spiral of anger. Maybe the fallout from a bitter
How Can I Reconcile When I Don’t Know What’s Wrong??” QUESTION: We have a split with my son because of a daughter-in-law. They have an 11 year old girl and
BY PAT HANSON Does the renewal of friendly relations seem impossible in your family? Do you think your estranged daughter and/or son-in-law with their complicated psychological problems will never change?
June 14th is “National Alienated Grandparents Awareness” Day? By Pat Hansen, Ph.D. Did you realize that grandparents have no automatic legal “rights” to see or “visit” their grandchildren in any
BY PAT HANSON PH.D. Unfortunately, grandparents don’t have automatic legal rights to see their grandchildren. In some states, grandparents can petition the court for visitation, but the standard for determining
By Pat Hanson, Ph.D. As we invisible, estranged or alienated, grandparents face the holidays, ghosts of emptiness, insecurities about our own parenting, and past anger or confusion about unresolved issues
Of all of the life stages common to the middle years of life, Grandparenting is the most positive and the most complicated. As the baby boom generation enters this life
Editor’s Note: GRAND Magazine is a resource for all grandparents; Grandparents who are raising their grandchildren and grandparents who struggle to just be in the lives of their grandchildren (Alienated