Grandmothers have always been crucial family members, but they are often pushed aside or held at arm’s length, harming children, parents, and grandmothers themselves. This book guides grandmothers to respond to the needs of today’s families, integrate themselves into family life, and form warm, lasting bonds with their grandchildren.
Grandmothers have always been crucial family members, but they are often pushed aside or held at arm’s length, harming children, parents, and grandmothers themselves. This book guides grandmothers to respond to the needs of today’s families, integrate themselves into family life, and form warm, lasting bonds with their grandchildren.
Contents Preface Dedication Part I: Get up from the Floor Chapter One: Excluded and on the Floor What is Wrong? Cohort and Culture Grandmothers and Families Chapter Two: Why Grandmothers? The Paradox of Menopause Evidence for Grandmother Hypothesis Still True? Chapter Three: Deep Within, On the Floor Again Every Part of the brain Genes, Selfish and Not Oxytocin and Other Hormones Chapter Four: Too Little Grandmothering Some Care is Essential Who is to Blame Suing for Visitation Rights Chapter Five: Too Much Grandmothering Custodial Grandmothers Three Generation Households Finding the Balance Part II: At every Age Chapter Six: The Loving Couple Lesson One: Keep Comments to Yourself Lesson Two: Respect the Gatekeepers Lesson Three: Recognize Linked Lives Chapter Seven: The Pregnant Couple Lesson Four: Quiet Fears and Anxieties Lesson Five: Learn about Innovations Lesson Six: Build Relationships Carefully Chapter Eight: Birth and the Newborn Lesson Seven: Remember the other people. Lesson Eight: Recognize Birth as a Pivot Lesson Nine: Prevent Postpartum Depression Chapter Nine: Infants Lesson Ten: Notice and Admire Lesson Eleven: Avoid Attachment Wars Lesson Twelve: Don't Feed the Baby, Unless.. Chapter Ten: Young Children Lesson Thirteen: Twelve: Avoid Assumptions Lesson Fourteen: Accept Blame and Mediation Lesson Fifteen: Discipline with Care Chapter Eleven: School Children Lesson Sixteen: Keep them Safe and Social Lesson Seventeen: Protect Victims and Bullies Lesson Eighteen: Help with Education Chapter Twelve: Divorce and Grandchildren Lesson Nineteen: Strengthen the Partnership Lesson Twenty: Be a Steady Anchor Lesson Twenty-One: Step into the Family Chapter Thirteen: Adolescents Lesson Twenty-Two: Navigate Changing Relationships Lesson Twenty-Three: Reconsider Suicide, Drugs, and Sex Lesson Twenty-Four: Learn Technology Chapter Fourteen: Emerging Adults Lesson Twenty-Five: Don't Advise Settling Down Lesson Twenty-Six: Explore Values with Words and Money Lesson Twenty-Seven: Take Care of Health and Ability Into the Future References Bibliography Index About the Author
Contents Preface Dedication Part I: Get up from the Floor Chapter One: Excluded and on the Floor What is Wrong? Cohort and Culture Grandmothers and Families Chapter Two: Why Grandmothers? The Paradox of Menopause Evidence for Grandmother Hypothesis Still True? Chapter Three: Deep Within, On the Floor Again Every Part of the brain Genes, Selfish and Not Oxytocin and Other Hormones Chapter Four: Too Little Grandmothering Some Care is Essential Who is to Blame Suing for Visitation Rights Chapter Five: Too Much Grandmothering Custodial Grandmothers Three Generation Households Finding the Balance Part II: At every Age Chapter Six: The Loving Couple Lesson One: Keep Comments to Yourself Lesson Two: Respect the Gatekeepers Lesson Three: Recognize Linked Lives Chapter Seven: The Pregnant Couple Lesson Four: Quiet Fears and Anxieties Lesson Five: Learn about Innovations Lesson Six: Build Relationships Carefully Chapter Eight: Birth and the Newborn Lesson Seven: Remember the other people. Lesson Eight: Recognize Birth as a Pivot Lesson Nine: Prevent Postpartum Depression Chapter Nine: Infants Lesson Ten: Notice and Admire Lesson Eleven: Avoid Attachment Wars Lesson Twelve: Don't Feed the Baby, Unless.. Chapter Ten: Young Children Lesson Thirteen: Twelve: Avoid Assumptions Lesson Fourteen: Accept Blame and Mediation Lesson Fifteen: Discipline with Care Chapter Eleven: School Children Lesson Sixteen: Keep them Safe and Social Lesson Seventeen: Protect Victims and Bullies Lesson Eighteen: Help with Education Chapter Twelve: Divorce and Grandchildren Lesson Nineteen: Strengthen the Partnership Lesson Twenty: Be a Steady Anchor Lesson Twenty-One: Step into the Family Chapter Thirteen: Adolescents Lesson Twenty-Two: Navigate Changing Relationships Lesson Twenty-Three: Reconsider Suicide, Drugs, and Sex Lesson Twenty-Four: Learn Technology Chapter Fourteen: Emerging Adults Lesson Twenty-Five: Don't Advise Settling Down Lesson Twenty-Six: Explore Values with Words and Money Lesson Twenty-Seven: Take Care of Health and Ability Into the Future References Bibliography Index About the Author
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