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Incorporating advice from more than 350 families nationwide, this guide offers specific tips for bonding with grandchildren, from babies to teens. Along with a completely revised resource section, this fifth edition features expanded sections on Skyping, texting, and social networking--Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Twitter, and YouTube. Among the guide's hints are more than 225 easy, low-cost, do-together, and long-distance activities such as ideas for successful visits, holidays, and family traditions. While primarily intended for use by grandparents, this sourcebook's strategies and suggestions can also help daycare providers, separated parents, extended family members, and teachers grow closer to the children in their lives.

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Grandloving provides a dollop of sage advice mixed with hundreds of practical recipes for fostering communication across the generations. This book should sit on your shelf next to your cookbooks. It will help you nurture your progeny. Dr. Ruth Nemzoff, author, Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children

<p> Grandloving will provide countless creative ideas and activities to build a loving, fulfilling relationship with your grandchildren. I highly recommend it! --Cheri Fuller, author, Connect With Your Grandkids

With humor, wisdom, and been-there experience, Grandloving covers everything from what to do for an expectant mom to how to connect with a grandteen. --Gun Denhart, co-founder, Hanna Andersson Clothing Company A grandparent classic--a well-rounded, practical, and complete resource! --Suzy Martyn, author, Enjoy the Ride: Tools, Tips, and Inspiration for the Most Common Parenting Challenges A peppy, upbeat, easy-to-read sourcebook for making memories with your grandchildren. --Arthur Kornhaber, M.D., author, The Grandparent Solution and The Grandparent Guide As a loving grandfather and cartoon creator who has never grown up, let me say Grandloving is a true treasury for every age! --Bil Keane, creator, The Family Circus As a loving grandfather and cartoon creator who has never grown up, let me say Grandloving is a true treasury for every age! Bil Keane, creator, The Family Circus A peppy, upbeat, easy-to-read sourcebook for making memories with your grandchildren. Arthur Kornhaber, M.D., author, The Grandparent Solution and The Grandparent Guide A grandparent classica well-rounded, practical, and complete resource! Suzy Martyn, author, Enjoy the Ride: Tools, Tips, and Inspiration for the Most Common Parenting Challenges With humor, wisdom, and been-there experience, Grandloving covers everything from what to do for an expectant mom to how to connect with a grandteen. Gun Denhart, co-founder, Hanna Andersson Clothing Company Grandloving provides a dollop of sage advice mixed with hundreds of practical recipes for fostering communication across the generations. This book should sit on your shelf next to your cookbooks. It will help you nurture your progeny. Dr. Ruth Nemzoff, author, Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children The book is packed with do-able, inexpensive and clever grandparenting ideas. The new Quick Tips at the end of the chapters are great for busy Grands, and the helpful resources make this book a 'must-have' for grandparents everywhere! Janet Teitsort, author, Long Distance Grandma Grandloving will provide countless creative ideas and activities to build a loving, fulfilling relationship with your grandchildren. I highly recommend it! Cheri Fuller, author, Connect With Your Grandkids The ultimate guide for grandparents who want to bond with their grandchildren and keep them entertained, but aren't exactly sure how. Barbara Graham, author, Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being A Grandmother. With humor, wisdom, and been-there experience, Grandloving covers everything from what to do for an expectant mom to how to connect with a grandteen. Gun Denhart, co-founder, Hanna Andersson Clothing Company A grandparent classica well-rounded, practical, and complete resource! Suzy Martyn, author, Enjoy the Ride: Tools, Tips, and Inspiration for the Most Common Parenting Challenges A peppy, upbeat, easy-to-read sourcebook for making memories with your grandchildren. Arthur Kornhaber, M.D., author, The Grandparent Solution and The Grandparent Guide As a loving grandfather and cartoon creator who has never grown up, let me say Grandloving is a true treasury for every age! Bil Keane, creator, The Family Circus Grandloving provides a dollop of sage advice mixed with hundreds of practical recipes for fostering communication across the generations. This book should sit on your shelf next to your cookbooks. It will help you nurture your progeny. Dr. Ruth Nemzoff, author, Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children The book is packed with do-able, inexpensive and clever grandparenting ideas. The new Quick Tips at the end of the chapters are great for busy Grands, and the helpful resources make this book a 'must-have' for grandparents everywhere! Janet Teitsort, author, Long Distance Grandma Grandloving will provide countless creative ideas and activities to build a loving, fulfilling relationship with your grandchildren. I highly recommend it! Cheri Fuller, author, Connect With Your Grandkids The ultimate guide for grandparents who want to bond with their grandchildren and keep them entertained, but aren't exactly sure how. Barbara Graham, author, Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being A Grandmother.

Author Information

Sue Johnson has contributed numerous articles for quilting and craft magazines, including Crafts, Quilt World, and Threads. Her work has also appeared in The Crazy Quilt Handbook and The Fiberworks Sourcebook. She is currently the CEO of Gramma Graphics. She lives in Lancaster, Virginia. Julie Carlson is an editor and ghost writer for the university presses at Harvard and Yale where she has edited many books including the Pulitzer prize-winning A Nation Under Our Feet and The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn. She lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Ann Ruethling is the coauthor of Under the Chinaberry Tree and the founder and CEO of Chinaberry Books. She lives in Spring Valley, California.

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