Grandparents

On Becoming a Grandparent
The Essential Grandparent: A Guide to Making a Difference
by Lillian Carson
Ready or not, you're a grandparent! How did you get here so fast? No one consults you about this new role. It is handed to you without your advice or consent. So now that you're here at this new stage of life, the question before you is, what are you goin

Forever Spring
More Grandmothers Are Like Snowflakes... No Two Are Alike: A Treasury of Wit, Wisdom, and Heartwarming Observations
by Janet Lanese
You're never too old to become younger. - Mae West. One positive advantage to age for me is that I have more time to smell the roses. - Helen Hayes. Youth is transitory, but a youthful spirit need never grow old. - Dr. Criswell Freeman.

Chapter 6
The Essential Grandparent's Guide to Divorce: Making a Difference in the Family
by Lillian Carson
Unfortunately in today's world, few families escape the heartache of divorce. Whether it's the divorce of parents or grandparents, and whether it results in a blended family or a single-parent -grandparent situation-it throws the immediate and extended

Aria of the Matriarch
Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood
by Cecelie Berry
The Black grandmother is an icon of spirituality and endurance. She is both a quiet sufferer and an inexhaustible warrior. In this first section, her transcendent spirit is reflected in the experiences and reminiscences of these writers.

Introduction
Mother of My Mother: The Intimate Bond Between Generations
by Hope Edelman
My grandmother lived in a town called Mount Vernon, and for most of my early childhood I thought that meant George Washington had once been her neighbor. There was a legitimate old-world feel to her street: gabled roofs, imposing oak trees, trellises, gaz

Part 1
What's Happening to Grandpa?
by Maria Shriver
From New York Times bestselling author Maria Shriver comes a poignant and compassionate story about one family coping with Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. Kate has always adored her grandpa's storytelling-but lately he's been repeating the same

Life Is the Greatest of All Statements
What Keeps Me Standing: Letters from Black Grandmothers on Peace, Hope and Inspiration
by Dennis P. Kimbro, Ph.D.
How late we grow smart. To be honest, there were times when I thought I knew everything. However, after absorbing the letters contained within this passage, I found I knew nothing. And I am not alone. Millions of people blessed with the miracle of sight

The Family and it's Members
by Anna Garlin Spencer
From my grandfather I learned good morals and the government of temper. From my great-grandfather to know that on education one should spend liberally. From the reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a manly character.

Heroes and Wise Men
Grandfathers are Like Gold
by Janet Lanese
Grandfathers Are Like Gold offers gems of hard-earned wisdom, advice, and lighthearted humor by and in honor of grandfathers. Full of insight and wit, Grandfathers Are Like Gold celebrates the delights of grandfatherhood - from aging gracefully

Heroes and Wise Men, Part 2
Grandfathers are Like Gold
by Janet Lanese
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. - Eric Hoffer. My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit.

Building a Grand Relationship Helps Keep Youth Drug Free
by SAMHSA
America's grandparents believe they are sharing a number of roles with parents in raising their grandchildren. More than half believe they are making a very important contribution to the lives of their grandchildren, according to a broad new look