Baby Equipment for Your House
Information and advice for grandparents in choosing baby equipment to keep at their house for visits from their grandbabies.
Advice for Grandparents
Tips for being a grandparent, from dodging favourites to knowing your limits...
Boundaries as a Grandparent
Ideas for grandparents regarding the importance of observing reasonable boundaries with their grandchildren. Includes tips on strengthening family bonds while honouring the authority of parents.
Can Grandparents Receive Financial Help For Raising Their Grandchildren?
Advice for grandparents who are struggling financially because of the responsibilities of caring for their grandchildren. Includes tips for securing funds and other types of help for the benefit of grandchildren.
Dealing With a Grandchild's Misbehaviour
Information for grandparents in regards to dealing with their grandchildren's misbehaviour. Encourages cooperation between the children's parents and grandparents but stresses that the final decision must be that of the parents.
Email Basics
Guidelines on the use of email for grandparents who wish to use this form of communication to correspond with their grandchildren.
Explaining a Parents Inability to Care for the Grandchild
Ideas for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren regarding helping the children to understand the reason(s) that their parents are unable to care for them.
Family History Stories
Advice for grandparents who wish to share stories of their family's history with their grandchildren, including ideas on keeping the kids interested and helping them to feel connected to their ancestors.
Grandparents who are Denied Access to Grandchildren
Advice for grandparents who are being denied access to their grandchildren. Includes tips on mending family feuds, seeking professional guidance, and protecting grandchildren from harm.
Instilling Self-Esteem in Grandchildren
Advice for grandparents on ways to encourage healthy self esteem in their grandchildren. Offers specific tips on ways that grandparents can help grandchildren to feel confident and secure.
Keepsakes for Grandchildren
Ideas for grandparents who wish to choose keepsake gifts for their grandchildren. Offers specific suggestions for making these gifts special and memorable.
Making a Family Recipe Book
Ideas for grandparents to make a family recipe book, encompassing the family's favourite recipes, both for everyday and special occasion foods.
Making Videos of the Grandchildren
Ideas for grandparents who hope to use videos in order to witness important events in their grandchildren's lives, especially when they live too far away to make it practical to attend in person.
Narrating Stories on Tape
Ideas for grandparents to share stories and "conversations" with their grandchildren, even when they live far from each other, by recording tapes for the children to play.
Obtaining Parental Responsibility
Though they are blood relatives, grandparents have no automatic, legal rights or responsibilities to care for their grandchildren. This article discusses a few of the means by which grandparents can assume Parental Responsibility for grandchildren, including one reader’s story of how she did it on her own.
Offering Help to New Parents
Advice for grandparents who want to help their grown kids as they begin families of their own. Includes tips for being helpful without being intrusive.
Photography
Ideas for grandparents in regards to photography. Includes tips on choosing a digital camera as well as for organising and finding creative uses for photos.
Sharing Your Life Story with Your Grandchildren
Tips for grandparents who wish to share their life stories with their grandchildren. Includes topic suggestions that are likely to appeal to children.
The Importance of Family Traditions
Advice for grandparents about the importance of establishing family traditions in order to create and maintain close family bonds.
Using Mobile Phones
Ideas for grandparents regarding the use of mobile phones as a means to keep in close contact with their grandchildren.
Visiting and Hosting Grandchildren
A look at planning visits between grandparents and their grandchildren, when they do not live in close proximity to one another. Gives tips on having fun while keeping an eye on the budget.
What Not To Do
Guidelines for grandparents regarding their desire to be a part of their grandchildren’s lives. Offers tips on being helpful without being intrusive.
When to Offer Advice (and When not to)
Tips for grandparents who would like to offer parenting advice to their grown children, but wish to do so without offending them.
Art Projects
Ideas for grandparents on doing art projects with their grandkids, including a suggested supply list as well as ideas for making the day fun and memorable.
Car Seats and Safe Transportation
A refresher on car seats and laws regarding the safe transportation of children for grandparents who plan to take their grandchildren for rides in their cars.
Child-Proofing Your Home
Ideas for grandparents in matters of childproofing their homes to ensure the safety of visiting grandchildren. Includes tips for both indoor and outdoor safety.
Choosing Age Appropriate Toys and Gifts
Guidelines for grandparents for choosing toys and other gifts for their grandchildren, including safety issues and recommendations for purchasing gifts that meet with the approval of the children's parents.
Cooking With Your Grandchildren
Ideas for grandparents who want to share time in the kitchen with their grandchildren, preparing special treats or everyday meals. Includes tips on making the experience memorable as well as educational.
Creating a Memory Book
Ideas for grandparents who would like to work with their grandchildren to make memory books.
Divorced Grandparents
Ideas for divorced grandparents in regards to overcoming their differences with their ex in order to make life easier on the grandchildren. Includes tips on visits, family events, and maintaining a positive attitude.
Fun Outings
Tips for grandparents for planning fun outings with their grandchildren. Includes specific ideas about locations and making the trips fun and memorable.
