
Enter Your Grandchild’s World
Learn how to stay connected with your grandchildren as they grow — whether they live across the street or around the world

Q&A: Grandparent worried about troubling health and living conditions
Question: I love my son and daughter-in-law, but I’m worried about their ten-month-old daughter’s health. The house is piled deep with trash, there’s mouldy food

Q&A: Helping grandchildren through their parents’ divorce
Question: As a grandparent is there anything I can do to help our grandchildren cope with the divorce of their parents? It has been devastating

Q&A: Helping grandson control his anger
Question: Our 9-year-old grandson is a great boy but has a problem with anger. He begins to wrestle in fun with his siblings and then

Q&A: Honouring my Alzheimer’s parent
Question: Can you tell me what it means to “honour” a parent who has become increasingly cranky, feisty, disagreeable, and demanding as a result of

Q&A: Interacting with our grandchildren
Question: This will be a painful New Year for us. For reasons we don’t understand, our daughter and son-in-law no longer want any contact with

Q&A: Playing an active role as grandparents
How can grandparents help new parents without wearing out their welcome? I’m excited to play an active and positive role in my grandchild’s life, but I want to be careful to respect appropriate boundaries with my son and daughter-in-law.

Q&A: Playing favourites with grandchildren
Question: What’s the best way to handle grandparents who play favourites? My parents are partial to our oldest child and our youngest child has noticed

Q&A: Setting our grandparenting boundaries
Question: Our son and his wife both work and have extremely busy lives — probably too busy. My husband and I frequently take care of