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Take an Education Vacation!
Choose one day out of each month and invite your entire family on an "Education Vacation". Invent games that can be not only fun but also educational at the same time. Your children will be having so much fun that they won't even realize that...
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Groups
YOUR GUIDE TO HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL GROUPS AS OF 2004 Intro: This guide will attempt to classify and organize ALL High School social groups in an organized, encyclopedic manner. They are listed in order alphabetically, following with a...
You Better Not Lie, I’m Telling You Why…
Santa Claus Is Coming Holiday season brings the perennial return of Santa Claus. According to traditional lore, St. Nick flies around the world on his reindeer-powered sleigh. He lavishes gifts upon the good children of the world, and as for...
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The Wright Place- Finances
Women have a love/hate relationship with money. Most of us do not enjoy dealing with it, yet we know not having finances under control will cause our entire family to suffer. A recent guest on the show Karen Franks, explained how important...
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Practicing, "Bringing Generations Together"
Sharing ourselves with younger generations keeps us young.
Childtrends reports 47% of all grandparents provide child care assistance with young grandchildren living nearby and a growing number of grandfathers are getting involved
as well. I found this fact rather surprising, a higher number of grandparents who are employed and live close to their grandchildren provide child care than those who are retired. Childtrends also reported that approximately 1 in 5 grandparents are being paid for their help.
What do all these information mean? Families need the assistance of family and close friends and we can all benefit from time together. More than one of our friends who are grandparents have made the decision that they want to live close to their grandchildren, sold their houses and moved closer to their families. Another couple reported taking their son and five other young adults to the Boundary Waters. Most of these teenage children had never been fishing or had the
experience of eating fresh fish over the open fire.
This past month, I enjoyed the opportunity of getting together with two of my son's, two of my brothers, four of my cousins, my father and friends on a trip to Lake Milac, MN. We spent the day on a launch, caught two fish and had a wonderful time catching up on life experiences. Summer is not over. There is still time for you to "Bring Generations Together." Make plans now! If you have read or personally experienced the benefits of spending time with children, we would love to hear your story.
About the Author
Don Schmitz is a popular speaker and writer on parenting and grandparenting. He is the author of The New Face of Grandparenting …Why Parents Need Their Own Parents and founder of Grandkidsandme, which includes: Grandparent Camps and Grandkid Days. Don holds graduate degrees in Education, Administration, Human Development and father to three sons and seven grandchildren. Contact Don@grandkidsandme.com.
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