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The crucial role of grandparents for children with additional needs

If you are a grandparent of a child with additional needs, you can be the difference for your fam...

The Unexpected Gifts of Grandfatherhood

Grandfathers share how this stage of life differs from fatherhood—and why it often brings deeper perspective, gratitude, and appreciation for family.

The grandparents who fuss over other people’s children, plant gardens they won’t see grown and keep mentoring long after...

There is a name for the pull older adults feel toward the generation coming up — and it tends to travel with how content they are with their own lives. The post The grandparents wh...

Grandchildren often describe their grandparent as the safest adult in their life, and grandparents often say the same th...

Ask a child who the safest adult in their life is, and a grandparent’s name comes up more often than the arithmetic of time spent together would predict. Ask the grandparent, and y...

Being a grandparent: support from Lutheran Tract Mission

by Anne Hansen ‘So even to old age and grey hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to all the generations to come’ Psalm 71:18a... Read more The post Being a...

A Father's Day Reflection on Grandparents

Personal Perspective: It's truly a gift when a neurodiverse child and their parent have broader family support, including from grandparents.

«Ήρθαν στη ζωή μας και μας έφεραν τόση πολλή χαρά»

Ο ρόλος της γιαγιάς και του παππού είναι γεμάτος συγκινήσεις, προκλήσεις και κούραση. Μιλήσαμε με τρεις γυναίκες που έχουν ενεργή σχέση με τα εγγόνια τους και μας διηγήθηκαν το απο...

How Grandparents Can Help Rewrite the Story About Gen Z

What do stereotypes say about young adults born between 1997 and 2012? What valuable role can grandparents play? To set aside judgment and open up the conversation, they have a key...

I live within 30 minutes of my 5 grandchildren. To keep our bond strong, I follow 10 rules.

As a grandparent, I pay special attention not to step on anyone's toes, but I'm also not afraid to stand up for myself, too.

How to Talk to Your Kids About Caring for Grandparents

Grandparents provide essential love and wisdom in children's lives, yet may require support as they age. Teaching children about compassion, responsibility, and aging fosters empat...

How to Get Grandparents and Grandkids to Connect

Chatting has benefits for both generations. Experts share ideas.

There is a particular kind of love grandparents feel that almost nobody outside the family understands, the love of watc...

There is a particular psychological experience that arrives in the lives of many grandparents, often unexpectedly, that the broader culture has very little language for. The experi...

There’s a kind of grandparenting that quietly outlasts every other relationship in a child’s life and it has almost noth...

Ask adults in their thirties and forties to describe the grandparent they were closest to, and a pattern shows up that is surprisingly hard to predict from the usual variables. It...

The Heart of a Grandmother

A quiet story of love, memory, and the moments that stay with us. The post The Heart of a Grandmother appeared first on The Good Men Project.

Grandparenting, Even Occasionally, Could Slow Brain Ageing

Not all of our dementia risk is in our control. But The Lancet’s standing commission on dementia previously found that 45% of factors that can increase our likelihood of developing...

The grandmother who drops everything for the grandchildren, doing the pickups, slipping them cash, turning up for every...

We tend to file a grandparent’s help under sentiment. When researchers count it instead, a small but real pattern shows up in how the grandchildren are doing — clearest in prosocia...

Whose House, Whose Rules? Why Grandparents Are Ruining Your Discipline—And How to Stop It

Learn how to navigate the Grandparents Di...

Grandparents University provides rare learning opportunity at K-State

MANHATTAN (KSNT) – A group of local grandparents got a taste of college life in Manhattan this week. Around 70 grandparents and their grandchildren visited Kansas State University...

Making Room for Grandkids: How Empty Nesters Prepare

Getting your home ready for these grandchildren is one of the best parts of this new chapter of life. It’s a big change, but grandparent is one of the most rewarding jobs you’ll ev...

Grandparents are a vital resource in the child mental health crisis, says psychologist

As more than 40% of American teenagers report persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, a leading child psychologist says that grandparents and extended family have a vital r...

You’ve Cruised Before, But Never Like This: Why the Disney Wish is the Ultimate Grandparent Move

6 Phrases That Push Grandchildren Away Without You Realizing

Grandparents often play one of the most important roles in a child’s life. Research consistently shows that strong grandparent-grandchild relationships provide emotional support, s...

Grandparents could get £303 a year pension boost for looking after grandchildren

Grandparents who look after their grandchildren during term-time or school holidays may be eligible for extra funds

The grandparent who didn’t receive much affection growing up often spent decades trying to do better with their own chil...

A grandfather in his mid-seventies is sitting in his daughter’s kitchen, watching her with his five-year-old grandson. The grandson is upset about something a friend said at school...