The Strategic Grandparent

The Strategic Grandparent

Author: Michael Shaughnessy

Publisher: The Word Among Us Press

Published: 2020-04-22

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1593253923

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How can you reach your grandchildren and impart faith to them? You are not alone in this question, and author Michael Shaughnessy wants to give you a proven plan for doing just that. Applying the principles of youth work, The Strategic Grandparent gives you a step-by-step plan for connecting with your grandchildren, engaging them, and making a lasting impact in their lives. You have an important role to play in God’s plan for your grandchildren—take the first step today!


Intentional Grandparenting: Contemporary Guide (Easyread Large Edition)

Intentional Grandparenting: Contemporary Guide (Easyread Large Edition)

Author: Peggy Edwards

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1458762165

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What is intentional grand parenting? This comprehensive guide offers ten basic principles for effective grand parenting, combining solid advice from experts with inspirational and humorous real-life stories. Intentional Grand parenting helps ease the transition for grandparents who face a vastly changed world of parenting by explaining the differences between ''then and now'' in childbirth and child-rearing practices, as well as what to expect in diverse family situations such as blended families and same-sex unions. This handbook includes a wealth of practical ideas, such as how to baby-proof your home, how to stay in touch (including cyber-grand parenting), and how you can best support your adult children as they become parents. Informative and fun, this book is an indispensable tool for anyone entering this challenging and rewarding life stage.


I Thought I Was the Only One: Grandparent Alienation: a Global Epidemic

I Thought I Was the Only One: Grandparent Alienation: a Global Epidemic

Author: Amanda

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2021-06-15

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 166322434X

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If you are experiencing alienation from your children and grandchildren, this is the book for you! It will be your Bible, your indispensable guide as you try to negotiate your way through some of the most difficult and heart-wrenching days of your life. Amanda is the world’s leading expert on grandparent alienation, and she has distilled into this book her years of experience and understanding as the tireless founder and indispensable leader of Alienated Grandparents Anonymous, the world’s largest organization of estranged grandparents desperate to see and be with their own grandchildren. It is the indispensable Bible for hurt and puzzled and distraught grandparents! ~ The Reverend Dr. John Killinger, author of From Poppy with Love: Letters from a Grandfather to the Grandchildren He Isn’t Allowed to See Amanda has provided a comprehensive and groundbreaking guide to the seemingly increasing intergenerational phenomenon of grandparents who are cut off from adult children and grandchildren. This is a must-read for anyone experiencing the grief, isolation, shame and trauma associated with such situations. By sharing selected experiences from grandparents in her own words along with what has been gleaned from experts in family estrangement, alienation, and legal approaches, Amanda brings light and hope to affected grandparents. Themes of bravery, understanding, encouragement, hope, and ultimate love of family enduring amid impossible circumstances are present throughout this pioneering book. ~ Carol Hosmer Golly, PhD, PL, MSW, LCSW, RPTS, Child/Adolescent Family Therapist Amanda is a leader and unique voice in the movement to bring help, healing and awareness for those dealing with the trauma of being an alienated grandparent. In her book, she brings her years of experience, reading, and advocacy to help the thousands of grandparents suffering with the profound pain being cut off from contact with their grandchildren. She has probably talked to and reached more alienated grandparents than anyone I know and it shows in her new book. Highly recommended. ~ Dr. Joshua Coleman, author, When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don’t Get Along (HarperCollins).


UX Strategy

UX Strategy

Author: Jaime Levy

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2015-05-20

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1449373011

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User experience (UX) strategy requires a careful blend of business strategy and UX design, but until now, there hasn’t been an easy-to-apply framework for executing it. This hands-on guide introduces lightweight strategy tools and techniques to help you and your team craft innovative multi-device products that people want to use. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, UX/UI designer, product manager, or part of an intrapreneurial team, this book teaches simple-to-advanced strategies that you can use in your work right away. Along with business cases, historical context, and real-world examples throughout, you’ll also gain different perspectives on the subject through interviews with top strategists. Define and validate your target users through provisional personas and customer discovery techniques Conduct competitive research and analysis to explore a crowded marketplace or an opportunity to create unique value Focus your team on the primary utility and business model of your product by running structured experiments using prototypes Devise UX funnels that increase customer engagement by mapping desired user actions to meaningful metrics


The Special Mission of Grandparents

The Special Mission of Grandparents

Author: C.Margaret Hall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1999-11-30

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0897897692

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By supporting and influencing their families and communities, grandparents—and those who act as grandparents—can play a key role in today's society. Their special mission is derived from a strong sense of purpose and direction that develops from making significant contributions to family life. These include compiling and recounting family histories, maintaining meaningful relationships among different generations, opening up family communications, explaining social changes, and participating in community life. With the aid of real-life examples of intergenerational family dynamics, the author—a clinical sociologist who has practiced family therapy for more than 25 years—presents principles, techniques, and perspectives for today's grandparents.


Operation of the Family Courts

Operation of the Family Courts

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2011-07-14

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780215560575

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Additional written evidence is contained in Volume 3, available on the Committee website at www.parliament.uk/justicecttee


To Grandmother's House We Go And Stay

To Grandmother's House We Go And Stay

Author: Carole B. Cox, PhD

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 1999-10-27

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0826116914

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This book addresses the growing phenomenon of grandparents assuming responsibility for raising their grandchildren. Cox has assembled an impressive team of psychologists, social workers, and nurses, as well as lawyers and sociologists. They draw on their experience to explore the grandparent-grandchild relationship and its intricacies. Lack of preparation, social isolation, psychological and emotional stress, and financial strain all contribute to the myriad of issues involved in this new wrinkle in the American family. Additional topics include: ethnicity and diversity, social services and interventions, and policy reforms. This book will be of interest to all social workers and gerontologists working with custodial grandparents and their grandchildren.


Children of the Land

Children of the Land

Author: Glen H. Elder Jr.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2014-08-11

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 022621253X

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A century ago, most Americans had ties to the land. Now only one in fifty is engaged in farming and little more than a fourth live in rural communities. Though not new, this exodus from the land represents one of the great social movements of our age and is also symptomatic of an unparalleled transformation of our society. In Children of the Land, the authors ask whether traditional observations about farm families—strong intergenerational ties, productive roles for youth in work and social leadership, dedicated parents and a network of positive engagement in church, school, and community life—apply to three hundred Iowa children who have grown up with some tie to the land. The answer, as this study shows, is a resounding yes. In spite of the hardships they faced during the agricultural crisis of the 1980s, these children, whose lives we follow from the seventh grade to after high school graduation, proved to be remarkably successful, both academically and socially. A moving testament to the distinctly positive lifestyle of Iowa families with connections to the land, this uplifting book also suggests important routes to success for youths in other high risk settings.