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Grandloving: Making Memories with Your Grandchildren, 4th Edition
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Product Description
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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #56389 in Books
- Published on: 2006-06-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 296 pages
Editorial Reviews
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Anyone who thinks mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law cannot work together has not read Grandloving. Sue Johnson and her daughter-in-law Julie Carlson, both early childhood educators, have written an extremely helpful book for enriching relationships between children and their grandparents. You will want to keep this book handy for quick reference when your "grands" visit you or when you visit them. -- Mature Living, Mary Paschall Darby, February 1999
Editor's Note: Boy, grandparents everywhere will have a ball with Grandloving! Only 10 pages into the book and I was "hooked." This is a fun, down-to-earth collection of easy, inexpensive ways to show your grandchildren how much you love them. There are lots of "thoughts" specific to a grandparent. This would make a great gift for grandparents - or buy one for yourself, Grandma! -- Farm and Dairy, Marcy Todd, October 28, 1999
Grandloving is a thoughtful treasure to give to new grandparents or even to those who have years of grandparenting under their belts. If you are already a grandparent, or are a grandparent-to-be, don't wait for someone to buy it for you; the book will be both a wonderful treat and useful guidebook for yourself and your grandchildren. -- Parentpages, Donna Bell, September 1999
Grandloving offers more than 200 innovative and inexpensive activities for grandparents and their grandchildren that will foster and enhance a close familial bond between the generations. By using these ideas and suggestions grandfathers and grandmothers (and uncles and aunts) can literally make life-long memories that will be cherished. Indeed, will inspire the children when they eventually mature into being grandparents themselves one day. -- The Midwest Book Review, James A. Cox, March 1999
Johnson and Carlson have written a peppy, upbeat blueprint to building a good grandparent-parent-grandchild relationship from both near and far. -- Central California Parent, Wendy Taylor Carroll, September 1999
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“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
“A peppy, upbeat, easy-to-read sourcebook for making memories with your grandchildren.” —Arthur Kornhaber, M.D., author, The Grandparent Solution and The Grandparent Guide
“A grandparent classic—a well-rounded, practical, and complete resource!” —Suzy Martyn, author, Enjoy the Ride: Tools, Tips, and Inspiration for the Most Common Parenting Challenges
“With humor, wisdom, and been-there experience, Grandloving covers everything from what to do for an expectant mom to how to connect with a grandteen.” —Gun Denhart, co-founder, Hanna Andersson Clothing Company
"The ultimate guide for grandparents who want to bond with their grandchildren and keep them entertained, but aren't exactly sure how." —Barbara Graham, author, Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being A Grandmother.
"Grandloving will provide countless creative ideas and activities to build a loving, fulfilling relationship with your grandchildren. I highly recommend it!" —Cheri Fuller, author, Connect With Your Grandkids
"The book is packed with do-able, inexpensive and clever grandparenting ideas. The new "Quick Tips" at the end of the chapters are great for busy Grands, and the helpful resources make this book a 'must-have' for grandparents everywhere!" —Janet Teitsort, author, Long Distance Grandma
"Grandloving provides a dollop of sage advice mixed with hundreds of practical recipes for fostering communication across the generations. This book should sit on your shelf next to your cookbooks. It will help you nurture your progeny." —Dr. Ruth Nemzoff, author, Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children
From the Publisher
Welcome to grandparenting, where the boundless enthusiasm of grandchildren and the timeless love of grandparents meet. Today's grandparents are eager to grow closer to their grandchildren, no matter how distant their homes. With its lighthearted narrative, gentle reminders about child development, and child tested and proven projects, Grandloving helps grandparents enliven their relationships with grandchildren of all ages. It's the only grandparenting book co-authored by a two-generational mother-in-law/daughter-in-law team and the only one that offers such broad input from so many families from all over the world. If you choose to do one activity a week with your grandchild, you'll find enough ideas in Grandloving to last you over four years! This is one guidebook you will reach for again and again!
Customer Reviews
A good book with lots of great ideas for grandparents.
This book covers the gamut when it comes to finding fun things to do with children. Because my new grandson is 800 miles away, I especially liked all of the long-distance grandparenting ideas. I would recommend it to anyone, mothers and fathers as well as grandparents.
Great tips and training, e.g. how to talk to a toddler!
I found GRANDLOVING a treasury of tips and suggestions, and not only for grandparents! Aunts, uncles, friends, teachers, childless former college roommates -- all of us who want to connect with kids and bridge the generations -- need its help! The authors are gentle, humorous instructors who show us how to slow down and focus on details for "toddler talk"... why a megaforce Hello Hug may bring tears instead of kisses... why to wear slouchy sweats and "get down" where kids really live and play -- on the rug. With this book's advice and its easy-to-engineer activities, crafts and gifts, we are truly ready for "Funlove" between grown-ups and children.
More than two hundred fun and easy activities
Now in a revised and expanded second edition, Grandloving: Making Memories With Your Grandchildren is more effective than ever as a compendium of tips, ideas and suggestions for grandparents to bond with their grandchildren. More than two hundred fun and easy activities drawn from 350 families are presented along with sound advice, helpful suggestions, and inexpensive do-together projects. Whether it something special for family holidays and celebrations, or just a rainy-day or weekend visit pastime, Grandloving will have everything you need to plan and implement a truly memory making event. Enthusiastically recommended for grandparents of any age or circumstance, Grandloving's engaging, "reader friendly" text is enhanced with reminders about child development, an extensive list of resources, helpful logos, and an easy-to-use index.
