Grandchildren

Anyone with young children or grandchildren in their lives knows that this year back to school is fraught with anxieties and uncertainties. For grandparents, in particular, this is a time of real confusion. If you are raising your grandchildren or providing childcare, then you face the risk of coronavirus infection…

Whether you live 2 miles or 200 miles from your grandchildren, this is a challenging time to be a grandparent. Your age and health may put you at greater risk of severe illness from COVID-19 and your children and grandchildren are therefore likely keeping their distance no matter how distressing…

Given the times we live in, there’s no doubt about this sentiment from Nella Last: “It’s a great blessing if one can lose all sense of time, all worries, if only for a short time, in a book.” And many of us are always on the lookout for the latest…

Probably few agebuzz readers are also reading “parenting” blogs at this point. After all, if we have children they’re likely adults by now and if we have exposure to younger children, it’s likely we’re the grandparents, with a decidedly different role than the parents of these younger children. However, a…

The news has broken and now the wait is on: soon enough, you’re going to be a grandparent and going to take on a whole new role in life, both with your adult child and with the child to be born. Are you ready? Do you know what issues you’ll…

Any of you who are grandparents likely understand that your relationship with your grandchildren is only as good as your relationship with their parents. Those who are close with their adult children are likely to have a closer relationship with the grandchildren than those whose adult children are estranged or…