grandparenting Grandparent Gatherings BY RICHARD AND LINDA EYRE P rofessional associations. Parents groups. Book clubs. Bridge clubs. Cooking groups. Walking groups. Extension courses. Fitness classes. Professional development courses. Sports teams and leagues, Group therapy.
We all do better when we gather with others who have the same interests and are working on the same goals, problems, challenges, and interests that we do. We learn from each other. We motivate and stimulate each other. We feel less alone in our worries and challenges and more motivated and encouraged by what others are doing. So why don’t we have more grandparenting groups? More gatherings and more good ideas and more discussions of how to do this important thing better? None of us want to re-discover the wheel. If there are good grandparenting and three-gen- eration family management ideas and solu- tions and patterns and plans out there, we want access to them. We want to hear how others are doing it. We want to become the best grandparents we can be by learning from other grandparents who may have more expe- rience background and resources than we do, or who just have a good idea or two that we have never thought of.
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