Grandparenting can by profoundly satisfying. Our love and support creates lasting bonds, and in the process we’re leaving a meaningful legacy.
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.
How to Create Learning Opportunities for Grandkids
Leaving a legacy involves creating meaningful learning opportunities for our grandkids. We can help shape their character & teach valuable lessons.
Cultivating Leadership in Our Grandchildren: 2 Keys
Grandparents can play a crucial role in shaping grandchildren as leaders. We can foster 2 key qualities through personal experiences & guidance.
Grandparents & Education: Investing in the Future
All grandparents can play a critical role in their grandchildren’s education. We need caring adults who are involved—at the school and elsewhere—to help kids recognize that a good education is often a major factor in propelling them to long-term success in life. They...
Meeting Our Grandkids’ Emotional Needs
Grandparents are in a strategic position to make significant contributions to our grandkids’ emotional strength. Here are 3 key ways.
Capture Your Life Story to Build & Share Your Heritage
Heritage is an important building block in our grandparenting, and it’s vital that we pass that treasure on to future generations.
Grandparents Day: Making Your Role Count
Grandparents: you have never been more vital to your grandchildren — for your wisdom, your presence, your encouragement, your love.
Learning and Growing Together with Our Grandkids
The learning process (even at our age) is a wonderful opportunity to share life and make meaningful contributions to our grandchildren.
The Power of Listening to Your Grandkids
Active listening can strengthen your relationships with your grandchildren, and help them grow and mature.
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Meeting Our Grandkids’ Emotional Needs
Grandparents are in a strategic position to make significant contributions to our grandkids’ emotional strength. Here are 3 key ways.
Learning and Growing Together with Our Grandkids
The learning process (even at our age) is a wonderful opportunity to share life and make meaningful contributions to our grandchildren.
The Power of Listening to Your Grandkids
Active listening can strengthen your relationships with your grandchildren, and help them grow and mature.
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
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.
Zoom Grandparenting: 3 Tips
My three-year-old granddaughter, who was just adopted into our clan, had her first full-family birthday party in isolation. These are strange days. Time to up my Poppa game for this latest challenge to being an involved granddad.
Should You Move Closer to Your Grandkids?
There are good reasons to move closer to the grandkids, but sometimes there are equally good reasons not to. Every situation is unique …
