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The Best Gift Of All: Traveling With Our Grandson

November 20, 2025November 19, 2025 by Karen Rancourt, Ph.D.

The best gift of all: traveling with our grandson BY KAREN L. RANCOURT, PhD Ask Dr Gramma Karen My husband, Gary (“Peps”), and I (“Gramma Karen”) started taking our two grandsons on road trips, sans their parents, when they were three and seven years old. Their parents always readily and enthusiastically waved goodbye as we pulled … Read more

Ask Dr. Gramma Karen – The Five Stages of Grandparenting

September 10, 2025October 28, 2022 by grandmagazine

The five stages of grandparenting BY KAREN L. RANCOURT Many of life’s significant events have been described as having stages, that is, particular points or periods in the growth or development of something. For example, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote about the five stages of grief, Jean Piaget detailed four stages of intellectual (or cognitive) development, and … Read more