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.

HEART Goals to Elevate Your Grandparent Game

Make this your most meaningful year yet. Use our HEART framework to set intentional grandparenting goals and build a lasting family legacy.

Ways to Share Christmas Heritage with Your Grandkids

Pass down your family’s Christmas heritage to grandchildren with kid-friendly activities—storytelling, recipes, faith traditions, and hands-on projects.

Involved Grandparenting Is a Win-Win-Win

Discover the win-win-win of involved grandparenting: positive relationships, healthy teamwork, and good memories for kids, parents, and grandparents alike.

Holiday Help: Ways Grandparents Can Support Busy Families

The holiday season can overwhelm busy families. Here are practical, boundary-respecting ways grandparents can support them and help reduce Christmas stress.

Holiday Harmony: A Grandparent’s Guide

Practical, faith-friendly tips for grandparents to create holiday harmony — calm tensions, preserve traditions, and lead family gatherings with love.

Connecting Generations: 2 Tips for Sharing Your Heritage

There are memories, stories, and sometimes mementos that link us to the past and help to shape a family’s identity.

3 Ways to Be a Step Ahead as a Grandparent

Stay a step ahead as a grandparent: understand grandkids’ growth stages, partner with others, and nurture each child’s unique gifts to build deeper connections.

Bond Over Books: Grandparent Reading Magic

Grandparents hold a unique magic to foster a love of reading in grandchildren. There are incredible benefits, from building close bonds to developing essential skills.

The Letter from Papa That Changed Three Generations

A grandfather’s legacy letter reshaped three generations – a moving testament on writing legacy letters to grandchildren and strengthening bonds.

6 Ways Grandparents Help to Build Family Strength

Practical ways grandparents can strengthen family bonds — activities, tips, faith practices, and problem-solving tools to create a lasting legacy.

Grandparents Leave a Lasting Legacy

Your grandkids will profit from the distinct advantages that you bring to their lives, which complement what their parents can give them.

Spending Enough Time With the Grandchildren?

Do you feel like you spend enough time with your grandchildren? Once retired, many grandparents take the attitude that all they want to do it relax and enjoy life, at the expense of extended family relations. These attitudes can be very shortsighted. [embedyt]...

Spoiling Your Grandchildren?

Do you spoil your grandkids? What exactly is spoiling? There is unhealthy spoiling but there is a better version of spoiling too. This is where grandparents might give their grandchildren treats to show how special they are. [embedyt]...

Having Unique Relationships With Your Grandchildren

Grandparents and grandchildren have such unique relationships. Part of it is a different routine at home. Rules at the grandparents house can be very different from the rules at the parents home. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arg45TIvtjo[/embedyt]

7 Timeless Pearls Of Wisdom From Grandparents

Words of wisdom from grandparents to their grandchildren, all given with the love that only a grandparent can give. Have anything to add?  If so leave us a comment on our Grands Matter Facebook page. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrRRy7f67v4[/embedyt]

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]

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