Grandparents and grandkids-Between Generations

Our children are 38 and 40 and still love to hear 90 year old GGS',great grams,stories.Holidays are the perfect time to share your successes and failures with your grandchildren.GG talks about the depression and all the similarities of today. Most of all, she talks about the way they came through it and not to be scared. Lillian Carson,author of THE ESSENTIAL GRANDPARENT says,"sharing family history can have the added benefit of motivating youngsters toward success,once they hear the struggles their ancestors have overcome.Grandparents can tell stories that connect the grandchildren to their history and culture and inform them that they belong to something greater than themselves-they belong to something that has roots" This Thanksgiving you may have the opportunity to:share your stories,show photos from earlier years,teach culture in a tangible way-with language lessons or Old World recipes,include grandchildren in preparations,talk about love and life. You are part of their legacy-dont hold back.
Grammie and Grampy