To be an unforgettable grandparent, you need to do memorable things with your grandchildren. Here are 19 unforgettable activities to do with grandchildren. These are grandparent tested and grandchild approved!
101 fun questions to ask kids to know them better! Great conversation starters to bond with your kids over dinner or a long car ride.
Here are ten to be an awesome grandparent and create a healthy, fun, and loving, bond with your grandchildren and their parents. Build an amazing relationship that is good for the whole family!
Help your Grandkids navigate the ups and downs of life with advice, encouragement, and love. Here are things Grandmas want them to know about life.
Are you looking for the best traditions to start with grandchildren? Then let us inspire you with these fun things to do with grandchildren!
It’s a myth that teenagers don’t want to ever hang out with their grandparents. Even though you may mourn the loss of your adorable little grandchild, don’t give up. Being their grandparent doesn’t stop when they become teens. Here’s how to stay close to teenage grandchildren.
Is it time to start writing a goodbye letter to your grandchildren? Here are some ideas that I am writing in my letters, that may inspire you
Help your Grandkids navigate the ups and downs of life with advice, encouragement, and love. Here are things Grandmas want them to know about life.
It takes great love and a little bit of skill to gain the trust of a teenager. Here are 5 rules that might help when talking to your teenage grandchildren.
Here are ten to be an awesome grandparent and create a healthy, fun, and loving, bond with your grandchildren and their parents. Build an amazing relationship that is good for the whole family!
It’s a myth that teenagers don’t want to ever hang out with their grandparents. Even though you may mourn the loss of your adorable little grandchild, don’t give up. Being their grandparent doesn’t stop when they become teens. Here’s how to stay close to teenage grandchildren.
It’s a myth that teenagers don’t want to ever hang out with their grandparents. Even though you may mourn the loss of your adorable little grandchild, don’t give up. Being their grandparent doesn’t stop when they become teens. Here’s how to stay close to teenage grandchildren.
Keeping a Grandmother Journal is a great way to keep memories around for your Grandchildren long after you're gone. A sure way to remember good times.
We need to understand that gifted children are not just “bright” – a highly subjective label. 15 signs of a gifted child--read on to learn.
DISCLAIMER: Just to put it out there, not all moms might be bothered by these but, from what I have heard said by many moms, these are still things that grandmothers should be wary of.
One loving grandmother came up with a great idea to spark her grandkids’ imaginations.
A Place that encourages others in their walk with the Lord and is intent on sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ to all the World.
Family tree of Eleanor of Aquitaine and her two husbands, showing her children and grandchildren and how they intermarried with houses of Europe.
101 fun questions to ask kids to know them better! Great conversation starters to bond with your kids over dinner or a long car ride.
Prince Joachim has claimed he was only given five days to break the news to his children that they will be stripped of Prince and Princess titles, after Queen Margrethe of Denmark's decision.
If you're trying to veer away from more commonly used names, these are some beautiful, but rare, baby names that you will absolutely love.
This is a fun dice game that the whole family can play. Be the first player to finish all of the rounds and you're the winner!
How to discipline a 2 year-old using seven key principles. Easy-to-implement, these positive discipline tips can transform your house from chaos to peace.
101 fun questions to ask kids to know them better! Great conversation starters to bond with your kids over dinner or a long car ride.
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A cookbook compiled by the family of Mary Eliza Butt, December 18, 1878-October 3, 1958, of Princess Anne County, Virginia.
I knitted for myself, my friends and family, my children, and now my grandchildren. Many people knit. Men and women. Even celebrities knit. Here are just a few of the knitters you may know of.
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Are you looking for some parenting tips on how to get your kids to listen the first time? Check out this in-depth article that goes beyond "fixing" and helps you create a home environment of listening.
1. With an average of 7 children per family, the Amish are among the fastest-growing populations in the world.
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The Florida dog racing ban means a lot of Greyhounds are looking for special forever homes for their retirement. You can help, even if you can't adopt a Greyhound into your family right now.
Whether you are a local Grandparent or a long-distance Grandparent, you have a lot to offer. Find ways to stay connected to your Grandchildren.
We all use old sayings without giving any thought to the truth behind them or their origins. Just for fun, let's discover the true meanings of some of these familiar old sayings.
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Despite our parents only being in their 50’s, they have been faced with some major health scares. After reaching out and asking on social media how they’d spend those last days or years (hopefully longer) with loved ones, one idea that came through was making a video with them asking them about their life, about […]
Grandchildren live far away? We've got loads of ideas to help you build relationship across the miles. You'll be an awesome long distance grandparent.
Here is a super easy recipe for licorice caramels. They are soft and chewy. Your family will absolutely love them and beg you to make them all the time.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Drowning Kind comes a genre-defying novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, that brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us. 1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when she’s home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she’s just Gran—teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love. Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Iris—silent, hollow-eyed, skittish, and feral—does not behave like a normal girl. Still, Violet is thrilled to have a new playmate. She and Eric invite Iris to join their Monster Club, where they dream up ways to defeat all manner of monsters. Before long, Iris begins to come out of her shell. She and Vi and Eric do everything together: ride their bicycles, go to the drive-in, meet at their clubhouse in secret to hunt monsters. Because, as Vi explains, monsters are everywhere. 2019: Lizzy Shelley, the host of the popular podcast Monsters Among Us, is traveling to Vermont, where a young girl has been abducted, and a monster sighting has the town in an uproar. She’s determined to hunt it down, because Lizzy knows better than anyone that monsters are real—and one of them is her very own sister. “A must for psychological thriller fans” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), The Children on the Hill takes us on a breathless journey to face the primal fears that lurk within us all. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781982153953 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press Publication Date: 04-26-2022 Pages: 352 Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)About the Author Jennifer McMahon is the author of ten novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Promise Not to Tell and The Winter People. She lives in Vermont with her partner, Drea, and their daughter, Zella. Visit her at Jennifer-McMahon.com or connect with her on Instagram @JenniferMcMahonWrites and Facebook @JenniferMcMahonBooks.Read an Excerpt Read an Excerpt The Monster: August 15, 2019 The Monster August 15, 2019 HER SMELL SENDS me tumbling back through time to before. Before I knew the truth. It’s intoxicating, this girl’s scent. She smells sweet with just a touch of something tangy and sharp, like a penny held on your tongue. I can smell the grape slushy she had this afternoon, the cigarettes she’s been sneaking, the faint trace of last night’s vodka (pilfered from her daddy’s secret bottle kept down in the boathouse—I’ve watched them both sneak out to take sips from it). She smells dangerous and alive. And I love her walk—the way each step is a bounce like she’s got springs at the bottoms of her feet. Like if she bounces high enough, she’ll go all the way up to the moon. The moon. Don’t look at the moon, full and swollen, big and bright. Wrong monster. I am no werewolf. Though I tried to be once. Not long after my sister and I saw The Wolf Man together, we found a book on werewolves with a spell in it for turning into one. “I think we should do it,” my sister said. “No way,” I told her. “Don’t you want to know what it feels like to change?” she asked. We sneaked out into the woods at midnight, did a spell under the full moon, cut our thumbs, drank a potion, burned a candle, and she was right—it was an exquisite thrill, imagining that we were turning into something so much more than ourselves. We ran naked and howling through the trees, pretending ferns were wolfsbane and eating them up. We thought we might become the real thing, not like Lon Chaney Jr., with the wigs and rubber snout and yak hair glued to his face (my sister and I read that in a book too—“poor yaks,” we said, giggling, guffawing about how bad that hair must have smelled). When nothing happened that night, we were so disappointed. When we didn’t sprout fur and fangs or lose our minds at the sight of the moon. When we went back home and swore to never speak of what we’d done as we pulled on our pajamas and crawled into our beds, still human girls. “Can you guess what I am?” I ask the girl now. I don’t mean to. The words just come shooting out like sparks popping up from a fire. “Uh,” she says, looking at me all strange. “I don’t know. A ghost? Someone who was once a human bean?” And that’s just how she says it. Bean. Like we’re all just baked beans in a pot, or maybe bright multicolored jelly beans, each a different flavor. I’d be licorice. The black ones that get left at the bottom of the bag. The ones no one can stand the taste of. I shift from one foot to the other, bits of my disguise clanking, rattling, the hair from the tangled wig I wear falling into my eyes. I love this girl so much right now. All that she is. All that I will never be. All that I can never have. And mostly, what I love is knowing what’s coming next: knowing that I will change her as I’ve changed so many others. I am going to save this girl. “When do I get my wish?” she asks now. “Soon,” I say, smiling. I am a giver of wishes. A miracle worker. I can give this girl what she most desires, but she isn’t even aware of her own desires. I can’t wait to show her. “So, do you want to play a game or something?” she asks. “Yes,” I say, practically shouting. Yes, oh yes, oh yes! This is my favorite question, my favorite thing! I know games. I play them well. “Truth or dare?” she asks. “If you wish. But I have to warn you, I’ll know if you’re lying.” She shrugs, tugs at her triple-pierced right earlobe, squints at me through all her layers of black goth makeup; a good girl trying so hard to look bad. “Nah. Let’s play tag,” she says, and this surprises me. She seems too old for such games. “My house is safety. You’re it.” Already running, she slaps my arm so hard it stings. I laugh. I can’t help it. It’s nerves. It’s the thrill. There’s no way this girl, with her stick-thin legs and cigarette smoke–choked lungs, can outrun me. I am strong. I am fast. I have trained my whole life for these moments. I’m running, running, running, chasing this beautiful girl in the black hoodie, her blond hair with bright-purple tips flying out behind her like a flag from a country no one’s ever heard of. A girl so full of possibility, and she doesn’t even know it. She’s running, she’s squealing, thinking she’s going to make it back to safety, back to the bright lights of her little cabin that are just now coming into view through the trees (only bright because of the low hum of the generator out back, no power lines way out here). Thinking she’s actually going to make it home, back to her parents (whom she hates) and her warm bed with the flannel sheets, back to her old dog, Dusty, who growls whenever he catches my scent—he knows what I am. I have weeds woven into my hair. I am covered in a dress of bones, sticks, cattail stalks, old fishing line and bobbers. I am my own wind chime, rattling as I run. I smell like the lake, like rot and ruin and damp forgotten things. I can easily overtake this girl. But I let her stay ahead. I let her hold on to the fantasy of returning to her old life. I watch her silhouette bounding through the trees, flying, floating. And just like that, I’m a kid again, chasing my sister, pretending to be some movie monster (I’m the Wolf Man, I’m Dracula, I’m the Phantom of the motherfucking Opera) but I was never fast enough to catch her. But I’m going to catch this girl now. And I’m a real monster now. Not just pretend. I’m going to catch this girl now because I never could catch my sister. Here it is, forty years later, and still it’s always her I’m chasing. Show More
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Sleepovers at grandma’s house can be the best times of your kid’s lives but they can also cause anxiety for all if you’re not prepared. So how do you have successful sleepovers at Grandma’s? In this post, I’ll give you 10 simple tips to help make sure the time spent will be wonderful for both […]