Frequent and regular contact will help you develop a positive relationship with your grandchildren. Visits give you a chance to spend time together—with and without your grandchildren’s parents—getting to know each other’s interests and stories. Planning will help you make the most of your visits with your grandchildren.
Grandparents give gifts for many different reasons and in many different ways. Some want to honor special occasions and accomplishments with things of value. Some want to encourage their grandchildren to have fun. Others choose gifts that help grandchildren learn about their family or cultural history. Some are satisfied to...
Some grandparents whose grandchildren live far away are concerned
that they might be missing out on their grandchildren’s everyday
lives and special experiences. But living
far apart doesn’t mean you can’t be close
emotionally. Long-distance grandparenting is a challenge,
yet with careful planning you can be in touch
with your...
Grandparenting has become a phenomenon of middle age rather
than old age. As such, grandparents may be experiencing some
mid-life crises of their own such as career change, divorce, widowhood,
dating, remarriage, or health problems. They also may
be concerned about the care of their own older parents.
Reading is a way to share human experiences. Intergenerational bonds
can be built and strengthened by relating storing to personal experience. Reading also can help develop reading, writing, and speaking skills. Ideally, books match one’s interests, motivation, and reading ability. Here are some considerations when exploring and
choosing books for...
The current study was a content analysis of court opinions on grandparent
visitation rights using the method of grounded theory. The research questions
addressed in this study were: (a) On what bases were grandparents granted legal
standing to petition for visitation with their grandchildren? (b) What was the legal
reasoning...
This study focused on the relationship between parental attitudes
and the conscience orientation of children, testing the hypotheses that
(1) parents who had children with an external conscience orientation
would show significantly greater disparity between their independence
granting and achievement inducement attitudes than parents whose
children had conventional or humanistic...
Contemporary parenting strategies tend to involve
parent-child interactions in which the parent neither
repressively dominates the child nor follows a permissive
laissez-faire course but respects the child's dignity as a
person. This paper integrates several current theories of
parenting and parent education into the construct of
"respectful parenting," which is...