Some grandparents are rude. Remember: our behavior and our daily actions can have a powerful, often unseen, impact on our grandchildren.
Connecting hearts,
Uniting generations
At the National Association for Grandparenting, we seek to validate and empower grandparents as they bond with future generations in meaningful ways and leave a lasting positive legacy.
The Long Game: Strengthening Ties with Your Grandkids’ Parents
As grandchildren grow and eventually become adults, it’s a time when we can enjoy and benefit from strong connections with their parents.
Easter Prayers: Passing on a Spiritual Inheritance
Easter prayers for grandchildren: Grandparents can create a lasting spiritual legacy and shape future generations through prayer and faith.
Bonding with Grandkids One Laugh at a Time
Laughter can be a powerful way to strengthen grandparent-grandchild bonding. Even texting riddle jokes can create fun moments & shared smiles.
Embracing Some Chaos as Grandparents
Grandparenting is mostly joy with occasional challenges thrown in. These tips will help you keep a proper perspective on the chaos and your role.
Architects of Heritage: 5 Grandparenting Narratives
These real-life stories from grandparents inspire and demonstrate ways to build a strong family heritage and a positive and lasting legacy.
Grandparents: You’re Needed … Maybe More Than Ever
Active, engaged grandparenting has a vital role to play for today’s families, and we should all embrace that and do our very best for our grandkids.
Spring Forward: Renewing Connections with Your Grandkids
Spring forward to revitalize the bond with your grandkids while renewing your grandparenting spirit. Leverage the season for meaningful moments.
Pull Out Yearbooks
Here’s a great way to embarrass your adult children (just a little) and help your grandkids understand their parents a little better.
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The Grandparenting Landscape: Statistics & Significance
Explore the evolving world of grandparenting with key statistics and trends — the financial impact, caregiving roles, and profound significance.
Unleashing the Lionhearted Influence of Grandparents
Grandparents play a significant role in our grandchildren’s lives, and that benefits both generations. We can leave a lasting, lionhearted legacy.
Easter Prayers: Passing on a Spiritual Inheritance
Easter prayers for grandchildren: Grandparents can create a lasting spiritual legacy and shape future generations through prayer and faith.
ESTRANGED GRANDPARENTS
Estranged Grandparents: Stay Open to Reconciliation
Even in extreme cases, keep yourself open to reconciliation. You may never have that “ideal” relationship with your children and grandchildren, but it can get better. Here's why. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSIse2bi-KM[/embedyt]
Hope for Estranged Grandparents
Brenda clutches a small picture frame in her hands—a 5x7 photo of three smiling grandkids, ages five, three, and nine months. This is one of those talking frames, where someone can record a message that plays at the push of a button. Brenda presses the button and...
LONG-DISTANCE GRANDPARENTING
When Your Grandchildren Are Far Away
Nana’s House by Teresa Kindred: I know grandmothers who connect with their grandchildren via FaceTime and make the best of it, but it’s very challenging for them.
Reentry Notes for Grandparents
After social distancing, reentry into the lives of our grandchildren is situational. Each family has a different set of risk tolerances and levels of concern.
7 Ways Grandparents Can Stay Positive While Quarantined
Now that I’m staying home more, I’m finding different ways to use my time. I find that if I stay busy, I’m in a much better mood than if I have too much idle time on my hands, especially since I’m not able to see my grandchildren except on the computer.
