Grandparents Kept from Their Grandchildren
The story of one grandmother who has been forbidden from seeing most of her grandchildren.
Parenting Advice
Whether you’re looking for advice on how to get your toddler to behave in restaurants or how to talk to your teens about sensitive subjects, we have the answers.
Helping to Raise Grandchildren
A look at the experience of one grandfather who has opened his home to his grown daughter and her three children.
How to be a Healthy and Active Grandparent
Advice for grandparents about the benefits of eating healthy diets and making time for regular physical activity.
Inexpensive Day Trips With Your Grandchild
Ideas for grandparents in the UK who wish to take their grandchildren on an inexpensive day trip. Includes contact information for numerous museums, zoos, and other attractions.
Making Financial Investments for Your Grandchildren
Advice for grandparents who wish to make financial investments benefiting their grandchildren. Covers savings accounts as well as other types of investments.
Making Time for Each Grandchild
A look at the importance of the grandparent/grandchild relationship and ideas for grandparents about making time in their lives for their grandchildren.
Parenting Your Young Child When You are a Grandparent
A look at the joys and challenges of raising children while also finding the time, money, and energy to dedicate to grandchildren.
Pocket Money from Grandparents
Advice for grandparents wishing to give pocket money or allowances to their grandchildren. Includes tips on teaching children to save.
Repairing Family Estrangements
One grandmother shares the story of her painful divorce, the anguish hat it caused her family, and their road to healing.
Setting Limits to Grandparent Childcare
Advice for grandparents who hope to help their grown children by offering childcare to their grandchildren, but do not want to be on constant call.
Setting up a Savings Account for Your Grandchild
A guide for grandparents who wish to set up a savings account for their grandchild. Includes tips on encouraging kids to both earn and save money of their own.
Stepfamily Relationships as a Grandparent
Being a step-parent is never easy, but Deb shows us that by keeping perspective and focusing on the positives, one can create a healthy and happy family.
Understanding a Grandchild who has a Behaviour Disorder
An overview of the more common behaviour disorders that affect children, meant to serve as a guide for grandparents who hope to better understand and support their grandchildren.
Acknowledging Holidays and Other Special Days
Ideas for enabling grandparents to share holidays and other special days with their grandchildren, specifically those that do not live near one another.
Advice On Adjusting To The Arrival Of Grandchildren
A look at the changes that occur when people become grandparents, from a disruption of daily schedules to an increase of mess and noise. Stresses the happy benefits of being a grandparent.
Baby Equipment for Your House
Information and advice for grandparents in choosing baby equipment to keep at their house for visits from their grandbabies.
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.
Helping Your Child through an Unplanned Pregnancy
Advice for helping a child through an unplanned pregnancy; includes helping her to explore her options and then supporting her choices.
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.
