The Grandparents’ Blog

A lighthearted look at grandparenting and retirement

Little House on the Prairie Musical

For our Family, Friends and other Grandparents in America and Canada.
I recently received the below email message from Melanie, a visitor to our site from the USA.  The musical production she is working on, “The Little House on the Prairie”,  was my daughters’ favourite book series when they were growing up in the States.  When [...]

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How can we improve The Grandparents’ Blog web site?

So far we have used our web site as a means of communicating “stuff” between our wide spread network of family and friends. Through our site, we have made new friends and our little circle has grown wider. From time to time we get heartfelt pleas and requests for advice from other grandparents who [...]

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The Wife’s View

When the man in your life retires, you both talk about it and plan it. How you both look forward to retirement, hoping you will have time to travel, read, cross-stitch, walk, spend more time with the grand-children and enjoying the garden. He can start on that list of jobs he said he would [...]

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Protecting Wildlife

My grandson Mitch is currently concerned about our local wildlife and wanted to add an article on protecting the barn owls in our area.
 
His drawing reflects his enthusiasm, although the “special effects” may be a bit OTT!
 
He may add more to this next visit!

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Keeping in touch with grandchildren

 

Using the Internet to stay close to family and friends at home and abroad
How do you raise your children and grandchildren to enjoy the full benefits of the extended family, if grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends are scattered around the world? This is a problem I have lived with first hand!
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I recently submitted this [...]

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