Synopses & Reviews
Incorporating advice from more than 350 families nationwide, this guide offers specific tips for bonding with grandchildren, from babies to teens. Along with a completely revised resource section, this fifth edition features expanded sections on Skyping, texting, and social networkingFacebook, Flickr, MySpace, Twitter, and YouTube. Among the guides hints are more than 225 easy, low-cost, do-together, and long-distance activities such as ideas for successful visits, holidays, and family traditions. While primarily intended for use by grandparents, this sourcebooks strategies and suggestions can also help daycare providers, separated parents, extended family members, and teachers grow closer to the children in their lives.
Review
As a loving grandfather and cartoon creator who has never grown up, let me say Grandloving is a true treasury for every age!” Bil Keane, creator, The Family Circus
Synopsis
Incorporating advice from more than 350 families nationwide, this guide offers specific tips for bonding with grandchildren, from babies to teens. Along with a completely revised resource section, this fifth edition features expanded sections on Skyping, texting, and social networkingFacebook, Flickr, MySpace, Twitter, and YouTube. Among the guide s hints are more than 225easy, low-cost, do-together, and long-distance activities such as ideas for successful visits, holidays, and family traditions. While primarily intended for use by grandparents, this sourcebook s strategies and suggestions can also help daycare providers, separated parents, extended family members, and teachers grow closer to the children in their lives.
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About the Author
Sue Johnson is the founder of Gramma's Graphics, Inc. and the online resource www.grandloving.com, has served as a judge for the Moms Choice Award, and volunteers her time and expertise to help battered women and children in Virginia. She lives in Lancaster, Virginia. Julie Carlson has been an editor since 1989 and currently freelances for the university presses at Harvard and Yale. Her developmental editing projects include Green Intelligence and Habeas Corpus. She lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Bower has taught for eleven years, with experience in elementary students, mentoring new teachers, teaching prospective teachers at Loyola University Chicago, and supervising student teachers at Northwestern University. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Table of Contents
How to Use This Book
Cuttings from our Philosophical Scrap Box 1 Nine Months and Counting2 Hello Baby!3 Love Across the Miles
4 With Open Arms: When Your Grandchildren Visit5 Pack to Play: Enjoying Grandchildren at Their Home
6 Heartfelt Holidays and Family Traditions7 More Mailbox Treasures8 Looking Ahead: Tweens, Teens and Beyond9 A Click Away: Keeping Close with Technology10 Caring for Your Grandchild11 Helpful Resources for Grandparents12 Favorite Books to Cherish and Share AcknowledgementsNotesIndexThe Most Important Family Tradition