GRAND Magazine - Spring 2024 - 31

grandparenting
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Don't try to figure out grandparenting on your own!
Learn from others.
Decades ago, when our books Teaching Children Joy
and Teaching Children Values were national best-sellers,
we developed a preschool curriculum called Joy Schools
where moms would form neighborhood groups and rotate
teaching their collective kids. We found that while the
mom-teachers loved the social/emotional lesson plans,
but interestingly, they also LOVED the moms' groups-
just getting together and talking about their kids, their
challenges, their family hopes and dreams. They said that
when they got together, they felt more connected, more
motivated as parents, and less alone.
And guess what! The same applies to us as grandparents.
When we gather with other grandparents and talk
about our grandkids, about what and how we want to
teach them, about being proactive and involved without
stepping on the toes of the parents, about our worries and
concerns, and just about any good grandparenting ideas
we have become aware of...we get more excited and more
knowledgeable about the whole thing!
Here are four good opportunities for learning and gathering
as grandparents:
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The bottom line is that when we
gather with other grandparents,
we get better at grandparenting.
THREE:
Join us for a Grandparenting River Cruise where we will
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ONE:
Start a Grandparents' Joy School. Joy School is still
going strong. With complete and easy-to-use lesson
plans, stories, and games that teach preschoolers the
physical, mental, emotional, and emotional JOYS of life,
it works beautifully with grandparents as the teachers.
Form a little group with two or three other grandparents
of preschoolers and go here to get the tried-and-proven
curriculum.
TWO:
Join us for a 5-session Masterclass on Becoming a
GRAND Grandparent. This interactive Zoom course will
be online every Wednesday evening in May and will be
recorded for class members who can't make it live to
every session. In it, we will discuss the best grandparenting
ideas, methods, and approaches from around the world...
how to work in teamwork with your kids-the-parents...how
to listen and communicate better with grandkids...how
to pull everyone together and have the kind of reunions
and gatherings that bond cousins and create synergistic
relationships...how to support grandkids financially in
ways that motivate rather than entitle...how to leave a
values and faith legacy that grandkids resonate
with and respond to. Simply go here
and sign up. As a reader of GRAND magazine,
you can get a 40% discount. Just enter
GP101 in the Coupon Code section on the
checkout page and hit apply when you
register.
cover the same Masterclass topics but in the intimate and
interactive confines of a cruise down the Rhine where we
will get a chance to know each other personally even as
we hone our grandparenting skills. Let us know if you are
interested in this course, either this Fall or next Spring, by
simply sending an " I'm interested " email to our pseudonym
account DrBridell@gmail.com and we will send you
details as they become available.
FOUR:
Simply think of two or three other grandparents who
live near you and have grandkids roughly the same
age as yours and go to lunch or dinner together once a
month and talk about your grandkids-about how they
are doing, about what you worry about, about things
you are trying to teach them and fun experiences you
are having with them. Brainstorm and learn from each
other.
Don't try to figure out grandparenting on your own!
Learn from others. Take courses. Get serious and get motivated.
Be the best grandparent you can be. Nothing is
more important!
Richard and Linda Eyre's parenting
and life-balance books have reached
millions and been translated into a
dozen languages. As fellow Baby
Boomers, their passion and their
writing focus has now shifted to
the joy of Grandparenting. Linda's
latest book is Grandmothering,
Richard's is Being a Proactive
grandfather, and their latest coauthored
book is Life in Full.

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