For Grandparents Who Want to Get It Right
Get guidance with New Grandparent Essentials
You love your grandchild with your whole heart and want to support their parents.
That doesn't happen by accident. You need to prepare.
You need New Grandparent Essentials: The Guided Workbook
Become the grandparent you want to be: one your grandchild's parents will welcome and your grandchild will remember.
This isn’t information. It’s implementation.
There's no shortage of advice and opinions for new grandparents. Blog posts, Facebook groups, well-meaning friends...
We are living in a time when adult children are more willing than ever to limit—or even end—family relationships that feel unsupportive. That's why it's so important for you to move beyond advice and start to take action.
New Grandparent Essentials is your action path. You'll receive a guided workbook that you'll work through at your own pace, with conversation frameworks, reflection exercises, and planning tools. Return to it over and over as your grandchild grows.
What you’ll walk away with
Your Grandchild's Dream Team: Creating a Harmonious Partnership with Parents
Whether your relationship with your adult children is rocky or smooth, their shift to parenthood can cause stress and misunderstandings. Our tested advice helps you confidently navigate the new relationship you're developing with parents when you become a grandparent. In Partnering With Parents, you'll get targeted conversation starters to find out what they need, determine how you can help, and establish balanced boundaries. You'll learn:
- The exact words to use so that parents know you'll support them
- How to be an in-law who's welcomed with open arms
- The secret to knowing when to help and when to step back
Building Your Legacy: Create a Vision Now to Make Memories in the Future
What kind of grandparent do you want to be? What memories do you want to make? How do you want to be remembered? Our guided exercise provides a framework to clarify your expectations and intentions, then helps you create a plan to achieve them.
Whether your grandchildren are close enough to see every day or so far away that you'll be lucky to have yearly visits, building strong bonds starts with your Grand Vision. You'll learn:
- The key step to making a lifetime of memories, even from a distance
- The most important step you can take to enrich your time with your grandkids
- How to pass on your values and traditions without stepping on parents' toes
The World Has Changed: Understanding Your Children's Decision to Do Things Differently
Body Autonomy? Baby-led Weaning? What do those terms even mean? With Trends in Parenting, you'll have a leg up on the other grandparents when it comes to understanding the latest terms, strategies and practices. Knowing what's out there on the parenting landscape is key to supporting new parents. In this section, you'll discover:
- The unfortunate truth about parenting in today's world
- How to ask questions without seeming critical
- What's important to new parents so that you don't seem out of touch
Keeping Your Grandchild Safe: How New Research Shapes Today's Advice
Babies haven't changed, but the advice about how to care for them has evolved as research has led to better methods. In Baby Care & Safety, you'll get the latest information and expert recommendations so you don't have to spend hours searching the internet or risk finding outdated material. Even better, parents will be thrilled that they don't have to explain to you why the crib you've been saving isn't safe for your new grandbaby! You'll find out:
- The fastest way to get up to date on current safety and care recommendations
- The whole truth about why parents won't trust you with your grandchild
- The single most important reason to keep up with new information
Discover the MVG Secret
There are a million ways to be a grandparent, but being a Most Valuable Grandparent requires knowing this important strategy.
Enrich Your Experience: Resources Chosen Just for You
We've cut through the dozens of options to find the best of the best in books, websites and more to provide you with further information and inspiration.
How New Grandparent Essentials works
NGE is delivered as a beautifully designed PDF workbook. You can fill it out right on your laptop or tablet, or print it out and complete the worksheets with pen and paper. It’s meant to be filled out, returned to, and shared with parents.
Your Special Bonus
What Today’s Parents Wish Every Grandparent Knew
A $49 value, free with your purchase of New Grandparent Essentials
A video presentation by DeeDee Moore, Founder of More Than Grand
In this 25-minute presentation, DeeDee walks through what the research actually shows about parenting today—the financial pressure, the stress levels, the loneliness, the information overload—and what it means for how you show up as a grandparent.
You'll understand why parents set the boundaries they set, what mistakes even well-meaning grandparents make without realizing it, and exactly how to become the grandparent your family can't imagine being without.
Right now, this $49 video is free with your purchase!
- Partnering with Parents: conversation frameworks + targeted question guides
- Grand Vision: guided reflection + legacy planning tools
- Trends in Parenting: plain-English primer on modern parenting terms and practices
- Baby Care & Safety: current, research-backed guidance for grandparents
- The MVG Secret: the strategy that sets the best grandparents apart
- Curated resource list: books, websites, and tools chosen for you
- Bonus: What Today's Parents Wish Every Grandparent Knew — video presentation by DeeDee Moore
New Grandparent Essentials was designed to help you avoid the misunderstandings that push grandparents out of their grandchildren's lives. And that is priceless.
“As a counselor specializing in family communication, I haven’t found a better tool to prepare grandparents for success. NGE provides answers to the common questions and concerns grandparents have had forever, as well as covering crucial newer topics that affect children growing up today.”
— Cynthia Kane, MS, CGC, Founder, It’s Their Turn: Wisdom for Grandparents
“This book has made a huge difference in the way I look at my daughters. I look at them as women who are raising children, who have more information than I did 30 years ago. Now I can play a support role and not the ‘let me tell you what I know’ role. I highly recommend it for any new grandparent.”
— Loretta B. (Lolo)
“With our first grandchild on the way, we wondered how to best take on this new role. By supporting our daughter and her husband first, we earned a stronger connection than before we became grandparents. And because we take their lead, our grandchild is with us instead of part-time childcare. We are all thriving together.”
— L.M.
“New Grandparent Essentials is totally worth the investment! The lesson in “intentional grand-parenting” made me realize how helpful it is to give more thought to my goals as a grandma and create an action plan. The talking points for the partnership with grandbaby’s parents are the most powerful part. “
— Gramma K
Questions we frequently get
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You’ll find plenty of advice about supporting parents and building relationships on the blog and in our emails, but the structured tools for putting that advice into practice are exclusively here. The core frameworks in NGE have never appeared in any of our free content: the Partnering with Parents conversation guides, the Grand Vision process, the Grand Plan, and the MVG Pledge.
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Most in-person grandparent classes focus on baby care basics. NGE goes further. The conversation frameworks and vision-setting process are things no hospital class covers, because they’re about your relationship with parents, not just your skills with a newborn.
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Most likely, yes. The transition to parenthood shifts even strong relationships in unexpected ways. The conversation guides in NGE help you stay ahead of those shifts rather than having to react to them after mistakes have been made.
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Not at all. The frameworks in NGE work at any stage. Many grandparents find them especially valuable once the early newborn haze has lifted and patterns—good and not so good—are starting to form.
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NGE is a PDF workbook with immediate download access. Most grandparents print it out, but you can also fill in the worksheets on your computer or tablet. Plan to spend two to three hours on the frameworks and worksheets. The Baby Care and Trends sections are reference material to return to as your grandchild grows.
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We offer a full 14-day money-back guarantee. Just email us at deedee@morethangrand.com and we’ll take care of it.
