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Grandparents Michigan style / by Link, Michael.; Crowley, Kate.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Grandparenting;
© c2009., Adventure Publications,
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Contemporary grandparenting : changing family relationships in global contexts / by Arber, Sara,1949-; Timonen, Virpi.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Grandparenting in the 21st century is at the heart of profound family and societal changes. It is of increasing social and economic significance, yet many dimensions of grandparenting are still poorly understood. Contemporary Grandparenting is the first book to take a sociological approach to grandparenting across diverse country contexts and combines new theorising with up-to-date empirical findings to document the changing nature of grandparenting across global contexts. In this highly original book, leading contributors analyse how grandparenting differs according to the nature of the welfare state and the cultural context, how family breakdown influences grandparenting, and explore men's changing roles as grandfathers. Grandparents today face conflicting norms and expectations about their roles, but act with agency to forge new identities within the context of societal and cultural constraints. Contemporary Grandparenting illuminates key issues relevant to students and researchers from sociology and social policy, including in the fields of family, childhood, ageing and gender studies"--Publisher description.
Subjects: Grandparenting;
© 2012., Policy,
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A spool of blue thread / by Tyler, Anne.;
“It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . . . ” This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories reveal only part of the picture: Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red’s parents, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to the grandchildren carrying the Whitshank legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn house that has always been their anchor. -- provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Grandparents; Storytelling;
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Grandparents as parents : a survival guide for raising a second family / by De Toledo, Sylvie.; Brown, Deborah Edler.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-318) and index.When the second shift arrives -- Unplanned parenthood : "why me?" -- Taking immediate action -- Your lifestyle : changed and challenged -- Family at large : your spouse and other children -- Your adult child -- Your troubled grandchild -- Your grandchild and the school -- The drug epidemic at home -- When parents get their children back -- Through the red tape -- Grandparenting and the law -- Child protection and the dependency system -- Government aid and public assistance -- Special education and early intervention -- Strength in numbers -- Their arms about us: finding and forming support groups -- Conclusion -- Appendices.
Subjects: Grandparents as parents.; Child rearing.; Intergenerational relations.;
© [2013], The Guilford Press,
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Raising grandkids : inside skipped-generation families / by Garrison, Gary.;
Includes bibliographical references.Focusing on grandparent headed households, Gary Garrison examines his own experience as a caregiver to his step-grandchildren and the experiences of others in similar situations, to paint a picture of grandparents who have put their lives on hold to raise their children's children. Grandparents have particular challenges in this situation, as they often have to battle their own children for custody, deal with pressures from caseworkers, negotiate their own health and financial issues, and address the guilt and resentment they may feel towards the missing son or daughter who conceived the children now in their care. As well, many fear their grandchildren will be taken away, which keeps them silent and isolated. This fear can be particularly profound for Indigenous grandparents, who bear intergenerational wounds of racism and colonialism as they struggle to create a better future for themselves and their grandchildren.Introduction: Grandparents into the breach -- The CANGRANDs campout: a great-grandmother's love leaps three generation gaps -- Child welfare: keep out! -- The pride of grandparents: a support group meets -- Foster care: parenting by the dozen -- Healing from broken attachments -- A family dinner: triggers on the menu -- Indigenous grandparenting: one food in every canoe -- On the reserve -- Dances with ants -- A three-generation brain dance -- Raising a skipped-generation FASD child -- In the line of fire: shell shock and self-care -- I survive, I rescue, I organize: the roaring grandma -- Thank you, grandma -- Caseworkers' conflicting priorities: closing files vs. helping children -- Grandparents and the survival of the species.
Subjects: Grandparents as parents.; Grandparenting.; Grandparent and child.; Grandchildren; Parenting.;
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A wish for winter / by Shipman, Viola,author.; Container of (work):Shipman, Viola.Sugarplum Christmas.;
"Despite losing her parents in a tragic accident just before her fourteenth Christmas, Susan Norcross has had it better than most, with loving grandparents to raise her and a gang of quirky, devoted friends to support her. Now a successful bookstore owner in a tight-knit Michigan lakeside community, Susan is facing down forty--the same age as her mother when she died--and she can't help but see everything she hasn't achieved, including finding a love match of her own. To add to the pressure, everyone in her small town believes it's Susan's destiny to meet and marry a man dressed as Santa, just like her mother and grandmother before her. So it seems cosmically unfair that the man she makes an instant connection with at an annual Santa Run is lost in the crowd before she can get his name. What follows is Susan and her friends' hilarious and heartwarming search for the mystery Santa."--
Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Romance fiction.; Bookstore owners; Man-woman relationships; Grandparents;
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A family guide to Covid : questions & answers for parents, grandparents and children / by Haseltine, William A.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-271).Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- Part one: Questions kids ask us -- Part two: Questions we ask ourselves. Situational awareness ; Protection and prevention ; Getting sick ; Pregnancy and infant care ; COVID and children ; Public health measures ; Reopening safely ; Vaccines and treatments ; What does the future look like? -- Seasonal special: Summer safety -- Part three: Resources -- Bibliography.Split into two sections, the first section seeks to give answers to questions that children and grandchildren may ask. Each question has in fact been asked by someone under twelve, some as young as four and five. The second section provides short answers to many of the difficult questions adults from ages eighteen to one hundred and ten ask themselves to understand this new reality. Again these are real questions people have asked.
Subjects: COVID-19 (Disease); Families; Self-care, Health;
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My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry : a novel / by Backman, Fredrik,1981-; Koch, Henning,1962-translator.;
When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Grandparent and child; Grandmothers; Girls; Individuality; Fairy tales; Life change events;
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Family reunion : a novel / by Thayer, Nancy,1943-author.;
"A grandmother-granddaughter duo are eager to spend their summer together on peaceful Nantucket, but the season that unfolds brings about unforgettable surprises in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer's magical, multigenerational novel. Eleanor Sunderland loves living on the Nantucket cliffside, in a charming home that has been in her family for decades. Now widowed, she looks forward to the arrival of her children and grandchildren for an annual family reunion, eager for the life and laughter that will soon fill the air. But Eleanor's island idyll is shattered when her money-driven children suggest she sell the house and move to a retirement community. She finds a lone ally in her twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, Ari, who moves in with her for the summer. Ari longs for a change of scenery, to stray from the path her parents have set for her. What she does not expect is an electric romantic spark with a Nantucket local, Cal, whose kind heart and charisma have her absolutely smitten. With plenty of her signature Nantucket magic, Nancy Thayer brings both Eleanor and Ari on a summer beyond their wildest imaginations, filled with exciting connections, old and new."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Grandparent and child; Conflict of generations; Family reunions; Family secrets; Widows; Summer; Older people;
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A spool of blue thread : [electronic resource] : A novel. by Tyler, Anne.;
“It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . . . ” This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories reveal only part of the picture: Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red’s parents, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to the grandchildren carrying the Whitshank legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn house that has always been their anchor. -- provided by publisher.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Psychological Fiction; Electronic books.; Aging Parents; Families; Family Secrets; Inheritance and Succession; Grandparents; Storytelling; Domestic; Fiction.; Literature.;
© 2015.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=1929917 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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