neil

Now is a good time to create your indispensable place in the lives of your precious Grandchildren. Since every family has it’s own dynamics it is incumbent on you to find a way to best serve your Grandbabies.The more proactive you are now the greater the rewards later. I realize it may be a stretch to do something as outrageous as to learn how to play an online game with your grandchild. It is a primary principle of Dale Carnegie […]

Grandparents caring for grandchildren because of the Opioid Epidemic don’t get to go hide. They don’t get time off to deal with the Carona virus Pandemic. Actually most of these brave folks are the most vulnerable to the pandemic. These Caring Grandparents find themselves in an already complicated and uninvited crisis. The epidemic “is overwhelming many families and child welfare systems,” said Jaia Peterson Lent of Generations United, a Washington-based advocacy group cofounded by AARP, at a Special Committee on […]

There are advantages to being old, or should I be politically correct and say matured. One glaring advantage is that it is a little easier to stay out of trouble, especially with Staying at home during this trying time. I am of the volition that we Caring Grandparents will create new and effective ways to reach out to our Grandkids. My message to them is Calm and Common Sense. I also believe that they too will learn many self reliance […]

One of the distance appropriate and also COOL ways to interact with your grandchildren is to play online games with them. I have found the most current and valuable place to find these is the AARP site. I am not sure if you have to be a member since I already am but they have some neat ways of connecting to your Grands.

For all of you that are struggling with Grandparents Rights issues it is useful to create a Google Alert(s) to your email.

I am a great fan of sunrises. That must be why I chose the North Carolina coast to retire to. It may not be fair play but all I have to do is to call my grandkids and remind them that Grandpa Neil has an ocean. It saves me a lot of travel time and money. Each time the three of them come I have to take them each individually for a sunrise. this creates wonderful bonds and individual time […]

In this era of NO Grandparents Rights I wanted to share this thought from the English Writer SAMUEL JOHNSON. “Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not”. It is hard but maybe one of our Grandbabies notices that we are taking the High Road I am so grateful for all of you Caring Grandparents.