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Tag: grandparents

The Pros & Cons of Living with My Parents

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About 10 months ago, we made the hard decision to sell our first home. With a new baby and two crazy dogs, we were...

Lessons from Mom: Five Years of Grief & What She is...

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It has been five years. Five years since that bitterly cold January morning that I received the call from my dad with the terrible...

The Parent Trap: Aging Parents

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We’ve known it was coming for a long time, right? I should have been prepared. But truthfully, nothing would prepare me to accept that...

Ways to Celebrate Grandparents Day…Six Feet Away

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Many people have missed sweet conversations and visits with grandparents during the pandemic, so celebrating National Grandparents Day on September 13 may be bigger...

Families Separated: Senior-Living Safety During a Pandemic

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You wake up. Breakfast is being delivered to your studio apartment for the 100th day in a row. You used to be able to...

When Your Parents Move In

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Being an “Elder Millennial,” I am on the cusp of sending my kids away to college (I mean, like seven years from now), but...

Encouraging Connections between Teens and Grandparents

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We are blessed to have grandparents that live nearby. We moved back to Kansas City so that our kids could grow up close to...

Packing Up My Parents

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About a month ago, a very big thing happened. My parents moved out of their home of 34 years. We loved that house. I’d...

Lessons from Grandma

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Have you ever had a role model that you didn’t realize was your role model until later in life? Without even realizing it my...

Navigating Life in the Sandwich Generation

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In the past three months, my mom was admitted to the ER three times (in-patient once), my son celebrated his eighth birthday, and my...

Navigating Death When Kids are Old Enough to Understand

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Dealing with death is never easy, no matter whether you’re a full-fledged adult, as most of us claim to be, or a kid. I...

I’m a Grandparents’ Girl: Building the Bond Between Generations

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A Grandparents' Girl Is there such a thing as a Grandparents’ Girl? Ya know, like the whole Daddy’s Girl or Mama’s Boy thing? If not,...

How to Talk to Children About Death

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As I was wrapping up this blog submission, the news flashed across my screen: another school shooting. Admittedly I was taken aback, again. I...

Long-Distance Grandparenting: Surviving the Miles with Love

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I moved to Kansas City for a job in 2004, when the idea of kids was not on my mind. The plan was to...

After Mom Passes: What to Expect

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Our mothers are the tough, loving, admirable and hard-working women who raised us, defined in so many different ways. The person who nourished and...
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