Connect With Long Distance Grandchildren
ARE YOU A LONG DISTANCE GRANDPARENT?
If so, here are some great ideas to stay connected with your grandchildren.
I have friends that have a grandchild living in Europe and I have other friends that have grandchildren living several states away. It is really difficult for these wonderful grandparents to have a close relationship with theirgrandchildren.
Luckely my friends with the grandson living in Europe are computer savvy and they communicate all the time via email and webcam. My friends who’s grandchildren live a long drive away talk by phone often and write letters and cards.
Nothing can replace having you grandchildren close but today’s author, Marilyn Nutter, has some great suggestions for helping you and your grandchild feel closer.
I hope you are having a great day,
Woody
Twelve Ways to Connect With Long Distance Grandchildren
As we take on our role as grandmothers, we navigate new territory that includes additional and unexpected stops. We may have challenges as we continue to work outside the home longer than we had planned, care for aging parents, squeeze in or forego personal interests and…the one that has been difficult for me, grandmothering from a distance. The script we have written in our minds as we anticipated this new season may not appear to be what’s on stage. As a long distance boomer grandma, I struggle with connecting to making sure that my grandchildren know me and that I am known to them. Though my grandchildren are below the age of five, I have determined to make some investments that I pray will yield dividends in the future. Some of my ideas are implemented now-others I hope to see unfold in years to come.
1. Communicate regularly by webcam even if just for five minutes. Let your grandchild show his latest drawing or play her latest piano piece for you.
2. Send special books through the mail and read together when you visit-sign and date the books!
3. Send e-cards, postcards and notes.
4. Make a plaster hand print with them and date it.
5. Keep a photo album documenting each time you are together-make sure you write dates and captions.
6. Make a photo scrapbook of a particular visit or special time together.
7. Have an activity each time you are together: baking cookies, playing with play dough, making a model, whatever is age and child appropriate. It will become a tradition and something they count on.
8. Start a collection together and keep it at grandma’s house: coins, rocks, stamps, seashells, etc.
9. Keep a journal and record your thoughts about them and the activities you’ve shared.
10. Plant perennials or a small tree at your house or theirs. What fun to see the flowers pop up year after year and the tree grow!
11. Frame their photos and art work so they have a gallery at your house.
12. Choose a Bible verse to pray for them each year. Keep a prayer journal about them.
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