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5 Questions to Ask Your Partner When You Become Grandparents
Welcoming your first grandchild? If you are married or in a long-term relationship, talking about your feelings and dreams around this change in your life is an excellent idea. Here are 5 questions to ask your spouse or partner.
Grandparent Mistakes: 3 Ways You're Straining Your Relationship with Your Family
Grandparents often assume that strained relationships are because of their child or their child's spouse. The reality is that we are all responsible for our experiences. Here are three ways grandparents are making things harder on everyone—including themselves.
4 Ways Parenting is Harder Today
Today’s parents are raising children in a very different world than grandparents did. Read on to discover four things that have changed since grandparents were raising kids.
Navigating the Minefield of a Grandchild’s Diagnosis: Some Help for Grandparents
Your grandchild just received a diagnosis — whether it's autism, ADHD, a heart condition, cancer, hearing loss, speech/language disorder, learning disability, or other serious medical diagnosis. How can grandparents show up for their families at this time?
Welcoming Another Grandchild into the Family? How to Help Parents & Older Siblings
How can grandparents help when baby number two comes along? Read on to find out to help both parents and older siblings when a new baby arrives.
5 Tips for New Long-Distance Grandparents
How do you make being a long-distance grandparent as rewarding as being closer to your grandchildren? Here are five things that will help you and your grandchildren create a close, loving relationship.
Pressing “Reset” on the Grandparent Relationship
What if your parents aren’t the grandparents you hoped they’d be? Find out how to hit the reset button so your children can have involved grandparents in their lives.
How to Help Someone After a Miscarriage
Grandparents can play a valuable role in helping after a daughter-in-law or daughter’s miscarriage. But how do you do that while you are also grieving the loss of a grandchild?
Should Grandparents Interfere with How Grandchildren Are Being Raised?
What should you do if you don’t agree with how your grandchildren are being raised? Parenting styles have changed, and your children may be parenting very differently than you did. Find out what to do if you believe that they are making mistakes as they raise your grandchildren.
Excited About Grandchildren? Don’t Forget Their Parents
In the excitement of becoming a new grandparent, it’s easy to overlook the importance of your continued relationship with your own adult children. Learn why you need to show new parents that you still love them.
Are Boomers Bad Grandparents?
When baby boomers become grandparents, communication can break down. Learn how to bridge the generation gap with between parents and grandparents with open conversations, a desire to learn new parenting methods, and simply listening.
What Grandparents Need to Know about Body Autonomy
How does teaching body autonomy protect your grandchildren? Asking for permission before hugging may seem strange, but it's an important way to teach children that they have control over their bodies. Find out why and how to support your grandchildren's right to say no to unwanted physical contact.