Dear grandparents and grandkids, write the story that brings you closer. In these pages, you’ll pass down family memories and make new ones. You’ll connect the past with the future. You’ll write the story of the special bond you share as grandparent and grandchild. Together. Sharing Stories, Making Memories is a shared journal for you to strengthen your relationship. With fun, insightful questions about childhood, family traditions, friends and relationships and so much more, this grandparents journal is the perfect place to get to know each other. Inside this grandparents journal, you’ll find: A shared keepsake—Share your answers and experiences side-by-side with this participation-friendly grandparents journal design. Thoughtful prompts—Connect with each other through fun questions like “what is your favorite family tradition?” or “describe a really fun day when you were little.” Follow your curiosity—Ask and answer your own questions about each other’s lives with blank Q&A pages. Uncover your unique bond and treasure it forever with this grandparents journal.

Grandparents Are for Making Memories is a compelling adventure into grandparenthood. A conversation with the reader, the journey yields an abundance of ideas and inspiration for enhancing relationships, from infancy to young adulthood. Perhaps the greatest value is in the informative chapter on fears and feelings with the awesome strategy of how grandparents can be instrumental in ensuring that precious grandchildren avoid the life altering traps of addiction. While exploring such issues as discipline, communications, decision making, and grandchildren's personalities, Dr. Lansford makes interactions with young children more than just treats and childcare. Whatever the age, circumstances, or family dynamics, this riveting conversation holds the potential to enhance any grandparent relationship, even in a pandemic. Included is a link to online, in-person conversations with the author.

In a world where our families are more scattered than ever, true and lasting family connections are hard to forge and even harder to maintain--and they don't happen by accident. For grandparents who long to create a close-knit bond in their family, popular speaker and parenting expert Susan Alexander Yates has a revolutionary new book. Cousin Camp is an inspiring, practical book that outlines how grandparents can plan and host a camp. Grandmother to 21 grandchildren, Yates has been creating cousin camps and family camps for years. Now she passes on what she's learned so you can help your children and grandchildren develop meaningful, lasting connections with each other--and with you! Full of specific, practical ideas and hilarious stories, this book contains everything you need to know from initial planning (who, when, and where) to a daily schedule to specific ways to build friendships among family members. Yates also includes plenty of ideas for family camps and reunions to draw everyone closer.

Contains dozens of projects for children and their grandparents to do together.

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 networking--Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Twitter, and YouTube. Among the guide's 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 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.

When an individual enters the role of grandparent, he or she often becomes a bridge to past generations for a grandchild. Such things as historical events, natural disasters, family triumphs and tragedies, and personal memories may get passed down to grandchildren. Key roles grandparents occupy in family life can include being a family historian and acting as a mentor to younger generations. Stories, pictures, documents, recordings, home movies or videos all hold great value in linking to the past. As a grandparent or stepgrandparent, consider how you might connect a grandchild with the past, preserve and pass on family memories and history, and make positive and lasting memories together in the present.

Ali's grandma can't hear or see very well these days, and she doesn't remember very much anymore. But Ali likes hanging out with her. So when Ali's mom takes out a wooden trunk full of Grandma's old photos, he sits with his grandmother, trying to figure out who is in all the old pictures. At first, his grandma doesn't seem to remember. But with a little help from Ali, she is soon sailing through the photos--and taking Ali along with her through the wondrous journey of her life. With daring, joy, and love, Ali's grandma shows him the importance of making and sharing beautiful memories that will live on in the ones we love. First published in Turkey, this endearing picture book is a joyous celebration of life, family, and love.