Heartbroken Great-Grandma Feels Left Out
A great-grandma who has a close bond with her daughter and granddaughter wrote to ask for advice after being denied access to her granddaughter’s preemie.
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Grandparents Have a Sacred Role During COVID-19
Grandparents have a sacred role to help foster empathy, self-understanding, kindness, and acceptance in our grandchildren simply by our ordinary attention — now more than ever before.
Read More »Are You Having Separation Anxiety During Coronavirus?
The coronavirus pandemic has upended the daily lives of Americans, and for many of us 70 million grandparents, contact with our young grandchildren has been cut off and we feel adrift.
Read More »Can You Talk to Your Daughter-in-law?
The mother and daughter-in-law relationship can be fragile or tense when the grown man in the middle must show his loyalty to his wife and put his mother second.
Read More »When Grandparents Are Estranged From Their Grandchildren
At heart, estrangement from grandchildren reflects estrangement from adult children, the gatekeeper middle generation that can promote or deny access.
Read More »It’s Not a Competition With The “Other” Grandma
When grandparents compete with the “other” grandparents, nobody wins, including the grandchildren. Our grandchildren thrive when they have lots of grandparents who love them.
Read More »Lessons Learned from Parenting Adult Children
By sharing our stories at our GaGa Sisterhood meeting, we learned some valuable strategies for parenting our adult children who are now parents themselves.
Read More »When Family Members Disagree About Religion or Politics
As our country becomes more polarized and volatile, families are having painful disagreements about politics or religion. Learn three ways to rebuild peace and family closeness in 2020.
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Want Mutual Respect
The mother-daughter relationship can be challenging. But if you communicate with mutual respect and honesty, you’ll keep an overall healthy and loving relationship.
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