Grandparenting the Blended Family: How to Succeed with Your Step or Adopted Grandchildren

Grandparenting is hard enough, but when you add in the blended family element, whether step or adopted, the challenge is even greater.  How do you succeed when these children are not your own? How do you make them your own? Can you get them to love you? to like you? to trust you? How do successful grandparents do it?

Dene Low, an award winning author and grandparent herself, explores thirty different sets of grandparents and provides tips and solutions  from her interviews and research for grandparent success.

Your role as a grandparent is critical to your grandchildren, whether they be your biological grandchildren, step grandchildren, or adopted grandchildren. You have a role to play. You have a difference to make. As  the author says, “Grandparents can save the world.”

Ever wonder what other grandparents do to succeed with their grandchildren? Grandparenting the Blended Family explores over 30 different grandparents and how they interact with their grandchildren—natural, step, and adopted.

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Ch. 1 Grandparents Can Save the World

Ch. 2 Meet the New Family

Ch. 3 What Do They Call You?

Ch. 4 Always A Parent

Ch. 5 An Island of Peace: The No-Judgment Buffer Zone

Ch. 6 Interacting with All the Exes Who May or May Not Be in Texas

Ch. 7 Holidays, Traditions, Events, Oh, My!

Ch. 8 Politics, Religion, and Other Times to Shut Up

Ch. 9 Going the Distance—When Families Are Far Apart

Ch. 10 Enriching Lives: When Its Time to Put Up and Speak Up

Ch. 11 When Your World Crumbles

Ch. 12 Grandparenting—Its a Joy After All