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.
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.
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.
Respecting the Parents Authority
Advice for grandparents about maintaining a respect for the ultimate authority of their grandchildren's parents. Stresses the need for respectful family communication.
Setting Discipline Limits
Ideas for grandparents regarding the disciplining of their grandchildren. Stresses the need for consistency, respectful interaction, and the need to honour the authority of children's parents.
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.
Choosing Schools
Advice for grandparents in choosing a camp or specialty school for their grandchildren. Touches on affordability, camp safety, the readiness of the child, and a camp's ability to meet the need of medically or developmentally challenged children.
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.
Foods to Avoid
A guide for grandparents regarding common food allergies in children as well as common choking hazards. Includes tips on safe mealtimes, as well as advice on emergency preparedness.
Fun Outings
Tips for grandparents for planning fun outings with their grandchildren. Includes specific ideas about locations and making the trips fun and memorable.
Gardening with Your Grandchildren
Information for grandparents about planning, planting, and tending to a garden as a project that they can do with their grandchildren.
How to Support Your Grandchildren
Advice for grandparents who would like to offer support and guidance to their grandchildren. Offers tips on establishing a trusting relationship while honoring the authority of the children's parents.
How to Take a Step Back
Ideas for new grandparents regarding the boundaries that they should follow in order to be helpful, but not interfering in the lives of their grandchildren.
Life Saving and CPR Certification
A look at emergency circumstances that may cause the need to lifesaving techniques and CPR. Includes tips on locating classes for certification as well on accident and injury prevention tips.
Multi-Generational Photo Albums
A look at making multi-generational photo albums as a project for grandparents to do with their grandchildren. Includes tips on making the project fun and memorable.
Parental Visitation When Raising Grandchildren
A quick guide for grandparents who are raising grandchildren regarding making arrangements for the children to visit with their parents.
Protecting the Rights of Grandchildren
Advice on looking out for the rights of children for grandparents who have taken on the responsibility of caring for their grandchildren. Stresses the need for professional legal advice.
Reading to and With Your Grandchildren
Ideas for grandparents about reading to and with their grandchildren to encourage the kids to develop a love of reading.
Research the Family Tree Together
Ideas for grandparents who wish to involve their grandchildren in researching their family's background and creating a family tree.
Scrap Booking With Kids
Advice for grandparents who would like to make scrapbooks with their grandchildren, including ideas on supplies and for making the experience a fun and memorable one.
