Grandparents Grandchildren

Author : Sandra Werle
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Grandparent and child
ISBN : 9781460275504

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Our Grandfamily by Sandra Werle Pdf

About the Book Our Grandfamily is an honest, yet reassuring look at the struggles and joys of living in a skip-generation family. Designed as a flip-sided book, dual stories allow readers to experience a unique type of family arrangement from the perspective of both grandparents and grandchildren. With humour, heart, and highlighted feeling words to inspire conversation, Our Grandfamily is both entertaining and educational. About Skip-Generation Families The portrait of the North American family is changing dramatically, with skip-generation families becoming increasingly common. These special households consist of grandparents and grandchildren living life together. The middle generation, parents, are absent from the home - but still loved. This complex style of family faces numerous challenges and support can be difficult to find. The purpose of this book is to raise awareness of Grandfamilies, to reduce the isolation felt by many grandparents and grandchildren, and to encourage meaningful discussions both within skip-generation families and throughout the broader community. About The SHARE Project Our Grandfamily is the result of the collective efforts of those involved in The SHARE Project. SHARE stands for Skip-Generation Families Helping Others through Awareness Resources and Education. The project was inspired by grandparents and grandchildren living in skip-generation families in Calgary, Alberta and was generously funded by the Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors Program. In addition to this children's book, the SHARE Project group also produced a resource for grandparents titled, Lasting Legacy: A Handbook of Guidance and Hope for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren. This resource is available free of charge at www.childrenslink.ca.

Author : Elaine K. Williams
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781452536774

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The Sacred Work of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren by Elaine K. Williams Pdf

You are not alone if you are one of the staggering numbers of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren! Are you confused by the generational gaps, challenging communications, and tough questions like, “Why are my parents so old? Why is my father in jail? Why doesn’t my mother show up to visit when she promised?” The Sacred Work of Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren is the first book that contains answers and stories to address these unique issues and challenges—from one grandparent to another. You’ll enjoy the practical suggestions on how grandchildren can manage and solve some of their own problems, while learning how to cope with your own distinctive life challenges. As a parenting grandparent, a kinship caregiver, a teacher, or a social service worker, you must read this book for invaluable insight. No other book takes on the complex challenges that parenting grandparents face with such depth and truth. How relieved and grateful you’ll be for the inspiration, knowledge and wisdom by the time you reach the conclusion! “Through the stories told by grandparents themselves, Elaine K. Williams reveals the challenges, commitment, and love experienced by grandparents raising their grandchildren. This book not only provides understanding and helpful information, but will also touch the hearts of all who read it.” —Sandy P., a grandparent who raised a grandchild “I’ve waited five years for this wonderful author, Elaine K. Williams, to complete her groundbreaking gathering of knowledge from three generations so that we can clearly see the patterns of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren. The most important points are to help grandparents understand the dynamics of the emotional and behavioral challenges their grandchildren face, and the impactful trauma that all generations experience. She brings the keys of caring, connection, and communication forward to assist families to heal. Highly recommended.” —Dr. Caron Goode, EdD, NCC, author of the award-winning book Raising Intuitive Children

Author : Arthur Kornhaber,Kenneth L. Woodward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000677102

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Grandparents/Grandchildren by Arthur Kornhaber,Kenneth L. Woodward Pdf

In this book Kornhaber and Woodward explore the vital connections which link generations to each other and expose a new social contract that destroys the emotional bonds between grandparents and grandchildren., This is the first book which reviews, in a careful ethnographic manner, the relationship of grandchildren to grandparents and the place of love at one end and abandonment at the other by grandparents. The authors probe the deep, unexplored emotional histories of hundreds of grandparents; how they feel about themselves, their grandchildren, and their loss of function within today's nuclear family., With sharp increases in the number of broken families and working mothers, grandparents are more vital than ever and also more available than ever. This basic research document shows how grandparents recover their natural role as elders of the family and of society. The author's basic premise is that to exist is to be connected, and that no matter how grandparents act, they affect the emotional well-being of their grandchildren, for better or for worse, simply because they exist., In an age when mounting economic and social pressures make it increasingly easier to split a family than to sustain one, the authors alert us to a forgotten source of family strength, the power of grandparents to enrich the lives as a whole. The case studies reported in this volume represent a first effort in an area left unexplored by developmental researchers. There are lessons here for social scientists, but even more for our alienated society.—Urie Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University

Author : Allison Gilbert
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781401396558

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Parentless Parents by Allison Gilbert Pdf

Parentless Parents is the first book to show how the absence of grandparents impacts everything about the way mothers and fathers raise their children--from everyday parenting decisions to the relationships they have with their spouses and in-laws. For the first time in U.S. history, as the average age of women giving birth has increased significantly, millions of children are at risk of having fewer years with their grandparents than ever before. How has this substantial shift affected parents and kids? Journalist, award-winning television producer, and parentless parent Allison Gilbert has polled and studied more than 1,300 parentless parents from across the United States and a dozen other countries to find out. Through her pioneering research, Gilbert not only shares her own story and the significant and poignant effect that this trend has had on her and hundreds of other families, but also the myriad ways these mothers and fathers have learned to keep the memory of their parents alive for their children, and to find the support and understanding they need.

Author : Kenneth Roy Bryson,Lynne M. Casper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Children
ISBN : UOM:39015051995671

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Coresident Grandparents and Grandchildren by Kenneth Roy Bryson,Lynne M. Casper Pdf

Author : Ph. D. Sandra Thomas
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781434929273

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Grandparents Raising Grandchildren by Ph. D. Sandra Thomas Pdf

"The study, in particular, was designed to examine the grandmothers' thoughts and feelings about their relationships with their substance abusing adult children. Additionally, the knowledge gained from these relationships was used to try to understand why these grandmothers take on the responsibility of caring for their grandchildren when their life plans may not have included this care-taking function at this current age or stage."--Publisher/Back cover.

Author : Barry Leonard
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781437900569

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Grandparents Living with Grandchildren by Barry Leonard Pdf

Census 2000 enumerated 158.9 million people aged 30 & over living in households in the U.S., of whom 5.8 million (or 3.6%) were co-resident grandparents, defined in this report as living with grandchildren younger than 18. Among these co-resident grandparents, 2.4 million (42%) were also ¿grandparent caregivers,¿ people who had primary responsibility for their co-resident grandchildren younger than 18. Among grandparent caregivers, 39% had cared for their grandchildren for 5 or more years. This report presents information obtained from 3 questions on the Census 2000 long form about co-resident grandparents. Census 2000 was the first time that questions on grandparental caregiving have been included in the decennial census. Tables.

Author : Carole B. Cox
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0826113168

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Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren by Carole B. Cox Pdf

A practical and supportive manual containing a 14-session workshop designed to help grandparents who are raising their grandchildren alone, written by a social services professor at Fordham University. Intended to be used by group leaders teaching a workshop, themes covered may be expanded or revised to fit the needs of a particular work group.

Author : Liora Findler,Orit Taubman – Ben-Ari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319455174

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Grandparents of Children with Disabilities by Liora Findler,Orit Taubman – Ben-Ari Pdf

This briefs offers a comprehensive view of the journey of grandparents of children with disabilities by employing a wide range of theoretical approaches such as intergenerational relationships, positive psychology, psychoanalytic views and models of stress. It presents a multidimensional view of grandparents, which begins with the general role of grandparents in the family and the transition to grandparenthood, as a major life event. The briefs moves on to discuss grandparents’ roles under unique circumstances such as illness or disability in the family and then deals with perspectives of parents of children with disabilities on the role of grandparents. Finally, it reviews attitudes of professionals toward grandparents and concludes with suggested intervention strategies for working with families on intergenerational relationships.

Author : James T. Webb,Janet L. Gore,Frances A. Karnes
Publisher : Great Potential Press, Inc.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Gifted children
ISBN : 9780910707688

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Grandparents' Guide to Gifted Children by James T. Webb,Janet L. Gore,Frances A. Karnes Pdf

Grandparents, with their greater life experience, will often realize?Xeven before the parents?Xthat a child is gifted, and that the child will need additional emotional and intellectual sustenance. Grandparents Guide to Gifted Children includes: ?XEarly signs of giftedness ?XSpecial needs of gifted children ?XAreas of concern ?XUnique roles of grandparents ?XBuilding a bond with a grandchild ?XMaximizing grandparenting ?XEducation plans ?XWhen a grandparent is the parent ?XLeaving a personal legacy

Author : Shirley Showalter,Marilyn McEntyre
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Grandparent and child
ISBN : 9781506468068

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The Mindful Grandparent by Shirley Showalter,Marilyn McEntyre Pdf

Grandparenting is a sacred, challenging, and sometimes bewildering calling. As educators, writers, and grandmothers with twelve grandchildren between them, Marilyn McEntyre and Shirley Showalter team up to share practices, tips, and ideas for grandparenting with intention and grace.

Author : Phillip Mccallion,Matthew Janicki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781135415389

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Grandparents as Carers of Children with Disabilities by Phillip Mccallion,Matthew Janicki Pdf

Older adults caring for developmentally disabled children have special needs. Are you and your agency doing all you can to help? Grandparents as Carers of Children with Disabilities: Facing the Challenges provides the first comprehensive picture of grandparents caring for children with developmental disabilities and their related requirements. Here you'll find information on the mental and physical health of these caregivers, highlighting their unique needs and the roles that agencies and advocates need to play in order to meet them. This unique volume will assist practitioners, administrators, and policymakers in including the needs of this group into planning and service delivery efforts. Grandparents as Carers of Children with Disabilities: Facing the Challenges takes an incisive look at: characteristics of these carers and the children they care for children in kinship care and their special needs the effect of kinship foster care on caregiving grandmothers the approach of Latino grandparents to bringing up children with special needs the service needs and provision issues of grandparent carers In this book, here is some of what you'll find: data from a school-based comprehensive multigenerational program in East Harlem, New York City, which explores environmental stressors associated with children coming into kinship care, discussing the impact on grandparent caregivers, with a focus on health status and access to care correlates of self-reported depressive symptoms among urban Latino grandparent caregivers a survey of grandparents (mostly African American, mostly female) caring for children with developmental disabilities in New York City that focuses on health status, emotional state, use of formal and informal services, and general life situation helpful charts and tables that put the facts at your fingertips a demonstration project that used an intervention model to determine how a three-pronged approach using outreach, support groups, and case management could be used to aid grandparents caring for children with developmental delay or disabilities ... and much more! As editors McCallion and Janicki point out, ”Primary childcare is rapidly becoming a normative experience of grandparenting. Grandparent primary care is found among all ethnic groups, and across all socioeconomic levels of society. Concern over preserving the family often causes grandparents to assume responsibility in spite of their limited financial means or own health conditions.” Grandparents as Carers of Children with Disabilities will enable you to provide these courageous, loving people with the help they need to do this extraordinarily difficult and often thankless job.

Author : David W. Shwalb,Ziarat Hossain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781317282549

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Grandparents in Cultural Context by David W. Shwalb,Ziarat Hossain Pdf

Grandparents in Cultural Context gives a long overdue global view of the changing roles of grandparents. The eleven main chapters are by experts in the Americas, Europe and Russia, Asia, and Africa and the Middle East, and the editors integrate their chapters with previous writings on grandparenthood. Rather than technical or statistical research reports, each chapter provides a thought-provoking and comprehensive review of research, real-life case stories, cultural influences, and applied implications for grandparenthood across and within societies. Calling special attention to the roles of grandfathers and grandparenthood in societies previously un-represented in the literature, it provides several hundred new citations of work previously unavailable in English-language publications. Accessible to both scholars and students, it has several pedagogical features (e.g. web links, discussion questions) that make it useful as a text for upper-division undergraduate or graduate level classes in behavioral, social, and family sciences. It is relevant to psychology, gerontology, family studies, anthropology, family/comparative sociology, education, social work, gender studies, ethnic studies, psychiatry, and diversity and international studies programs. Practitioners, service providers, policymakers, and internationally minded grandparents will also enjoy this book.

Author : Bert Hayslip
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0826116841

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Working With Custodial Grandparents by Bert Hayslip Pdf

The 18 papers of this collection on grandparents who raise their grandchildren are grouped into the broad categories of theory, practical applications, and empirical studies. Individual topics include case studies, intervention research, support groups, cross-discipline approaches to establishing caregiving guidelines, the psychological adaptation of grandchildren, building parenting skills, and grandparent caregivers of children with developmental disabilities. The contributors teach psychology, social work, child development, and gerontology at universities in the US.

Author : Camille Liscinsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1845971205

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Grandparents and Grandchildren by Camille Liscinsky Pdf

Ask a grandparent about a grandchild and you're usually in for a long conversation. This heart-warming book by Camille Liscinsky celebrates the delights of grandparenthood. The grandparents quoted here love what they're doing - from breaking rules to sharing triumphs, from giving advice to singing silly songs. They question, they reflect, they sing, and they clap. They're having the time of their lives! You'll find this book a collection of pure delight.