Do you find yourself forgetting birthdays, favorite colors, favorite foods, favorite toys? Need a better contact list for those nights when YOU are the babysitter? This journal-style notebook is for you! You will be the Grandma of the hour because all the information for each grandchild will be in this handy book ready to grab at a moment's notice.Birthday greetings? All you have to do is get that card, the date and address are in your book! A favorite recipe for the grandchild spending the night? The kid's name and favorite foods are right here! Need a shopping list for Christmas? Not a problem! You got this Grandma!
With half of the UK's grandparents aged under 65, being a granny is no longer all blue rinses, hip replacements and bingo. Happy, healthy and energetic, the modern gran is worlds away from the little old biddy stereotype. If you're a new gran, or about to become one, The New Granny's Survival Guide is your essential handbook for grandparenting. Packed full of sanity-saving advice from Gransnet - the number one online platform for grannies - this book covers everything you need to know to be a brilliant gran. With practical guidance, hilarious insights and fresh ideas, you'll discover- Top tips for entertaining your grandchildren Advice on building great relationships with in-laws Guidance on how to cope with broken families, competitive grannies and difficult situations Suggestions for how to juggle your own social life with being a hands-on gran With a foreword by Janet Ellis and full of wit and wisdom, The New Granny's Survival Guide is the perfect companion for today's dynamic grannies.
Hold on to your hats as Grandma's Short and Sweet Survival Guide sweeps into your life. This easy-to-read guide helps Grandma cope with the seemingly impossible tasks before her. Well past the good-old-days when everything made sense, and sometimes not quite sure her children haven't lost their minds, Grandma is thrust into a new, strange world of parenting. What does she do? Where can she turn? This guide walks Grandma through some of life's most challenging situations. She will find solutions, consolation, and renewed hope that she can be a fountain of love and happiness to those she holds most dear.
Most grandparents don't want to read a big, thick book. They want an affordable, inviting book that gives them a quick refresher and an overview.How to Build the Grandma Connection is a powerful pocket guide that helps people navigate the modern territory of grandparenthood. Whether you are a new grandparent, have been one for years, or are a parent who wants to encourage a close bond between your children and their grandparents, this book is filled with ideas and insights you'll turn to again and again. It explains: -- Why Grandparents are VIPs -- 5 Simple Steps to Building the Grandma (and Grandpa) Connection -- Tons of Terrific Tips for Grandparents Near and Far -- including tips for babysitting and visits, child development, dealing with conflicts, sharing life stories, giving gifts and keepsakes -- The 5 Life Lessons of Grandparenthood -- The Most Complete Listing Ever of the Best Books for Sharing with Grandchildren -- Other Books & Resources to Help Make Relationships with Grandchildren and Adult Children Rewarding and SpecialDeveloped from Susan V. Bosak's popular Grandma Connection Workshops, How to Build the Grandma Connection fills a market niche. Grandparents across the country have told Susan what they need, and she's covered it all -- clearly and concisely.There will be ongoing national and regional print, radio, and TV publicity for this title. As an author, speaker, researcher, and educator, Susan travels extensively doing workshops, and is a popular radio and television guest.
A beautiful storybook that helps children understand their grandparent’s challenges, written by a nurse and a psychologist. The authors of Grandma and Me have combined their years of clinical experience to create a truly engaging, yet informative book for young children on the topics of Alzheimer’s and dementia. With beautiful artwork to capture children’s attention, Grandma and Me provides a gentle, age-appropriate portrait of Alzheimer’s disease in the context of a loving relationship between grandparent and grandchild—and provides tools that will help children continue to have a relationship with their loved one despite the disease. Grandma and Me addresses a difficult topic with compassion and understanding, and allows families to successfully navigate the journey ahead.
I've always been told that life is a journey, that we'll be faced with many adventures along the way. But who would have guessed that Sharon Hinchee's journey and adventure included helping people survive not one but two "killer" hurricanes to hit the Louisiana Gulf Coast in less than 30 days. On August 26th Sharon was in New Orleans eyeing new equipment and supplies at the National EMS Expo. Within hours she was executing a plan to provide bedding, I V fluids and medications for thousands of medical special needs victims across the state of Louisiana. Sharon was given the opportunity and the challenge to use her unique skills and talents to help others survive. I certainly hope that she does not need to employ those skills again, but I am confident that she would excel as she did in 2005. It has been a privilege to work with Sharon and members of her family and I'm proud to call her my friend. Reading this book brought back a flood of memories, some good others not so good. But I can say that the citizens of Louisiana and the Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health, owe Sharon a debt of gratitude. May she continue to serve as a role model for brave and intelligent women in the world we face. Nancy Bourgeois, Author and Motivational Speaker
Written from a child’s point of view, this touching picture book centers around a nontraditional family of grandparents raising their grandchild. Sometimes It’s Grandmas and Grandpas shares a child’s experience living with and being cared for by grandparents through the eyes of a cheerful and delightful little girl. Uplifting watercolor illustrations give extra warmth to this caring and loving story, to which a growing number of children can identify—over 4.5 million children in the United States are primarily cared for by a grandparent. Poignant moments expressing the child’s curiosity and questions give way to comforting and playful exchanges at home with Nonnie and Poppy. Spending the day with this grandparent–led family, we see that it’s not always Mommies or Daddies that care for children, and that’s okay! Sometimes It’s Grandmas and Grandpas is the winner of the 2012 Book Award for Best Children’s Literature on Aging in the primary reader category from the The K-12 Committee of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE). It provides a great resource for children who seek reassurance about their particular experience. This unique book will appeal to any grandparent raising or providing long–term care for a grandchild, as well as any teacher who wants to educate children about nontraditional families. Sometimes It’s Grandmas and Grandpas sensitively addresses a topic that has been nearly absent in the children’s book market, until now.
So you’re a grandparent! One of the most magical roles you’ll ever have – but also one of the messiest. But never fear: this indispensable handbook is here to guide you through the pleasures and pitfalls of grandparenthood, and, most importantly, teach you how to keep the grandkids quiet while you catch up on your nap-time.
Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in Canada’s Yukon, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don’t fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels. Ivan writes movingly about many firsts: the first time they were mistaken for a boy; the first time they purposely discarded their bikini top so they could join the boys at the local swimming pool; and the first time they were chastised for using the women’s washroom. Ivan also explores their years as a young butch, dealing with new infatuations and old baggage, and life as a gender-box-defying adult, in which they offer advice to young people while seeking guidance from others. (And for tomboys in training, there are even directions on building your very own unicorn trap.) Tomboy Survival Guide warmly recounts Ivan’s adventures and mishaps as a diffident yet free-spirited tomboy, and maps their journey through treacherous gender landscapes and a maze of labels that don’t quite stick, to a place of self-acceptance and an authentic and personal strength. These heartfelt, funny, and moving stories are about the culture of difference—a “guide” to being true to one’s self. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Young working mothers are not the only ones who are struggling to balance family life and careers. Many middle-aged American women face this dilemma as they provide routine childcare for their grandchildren while pursuing careers and trying to make ends meet. Employment among middle-aged women is at an all-time high, and grandmothers, are rearranging hours to take care of their grandchildren, experiencing additional loss of salary and reduced old age pension accumulation. This book explores the strategies of, and impacts on, working grandmothers.
