Posted by Ken Canfield, PhD | Oct 18, 2016 | GrandDaughters | 0 |
Elyce Wakerman’s father died when she was three. Her loss propelled her to study the plight of young women who had grown up without a dad in their lives. In her book Father Loss, Wakerman surveyed over 700 women who had...
Read MorePosted by Ken Canfield, PhD | Oct 14, 2016 | GrandSons | 0 |
According to recent research, boys in our country are “fragile.” When compared to girls, boys generally show much higher tendencies to struggle with issues such as learning disorders, failure to finish high school,...
Read MorePosted by Ken Canfield, PhD | Oct 12, 2016 | Grandchildren, Grandfathers | 0 |
There’s a growing awareness of a grandfather’s importance in the life of his daughter. Both the academic world and the general population are recognizing that a grandfather’s influence goes beyond the “little...
Read MorePosted by Ken Canfield, PhD | Oct 7, 2016 | GrandDaughters | 0 |
Little girls are cute. Boys are cute too, but it seems natural to cuddle little girls more than boys and, in fact, some grandfathers do tend to pick up and hold granddaughters more than grandsons. But before you know it, that...
Read MorePosted by Ken Canfield, PhD | Oct 3, 2016 | Work & Family | 0 |
Imagine you could fast-forward your teenage granddaughter’s life fifteen or twenty years. She’s thirty-five, and you get to see her coming in the door from grocery shopping with three young kids. Clearly, the outing...
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