The Grand Life: Wholehearted Grandparenting

Learn how to upgrade the way you listen, so you can learn more from your grands in your conversations with them. "Transformational Listening" is the technique explained by consultant and coach Christine Miles. Her book is called "What is It Costing You Not To Listen?," and her company is called Equipt. Visit www.equipt-people.com. 

For more on talking with your grands, we visited with author Dr. Rebecca Rolland in this episode rom 2022: https://omny.fm/shows/thegrandlife/talking-with-grands 

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As some of our grands head to school for the very first time, we could imagine what it's like for them; or we could talk to an experienced preschool teacher, Chrissy Cox, which we did last year. Here's a new look at this great conversation (with some new ideas before and after) about school days for our youngest grands.

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A lifetime of stuff can be a challenge to pass on, throw out, or leave behind as a burden to your family. Emily and Mike welcome Stephanie Denson, an organization consultant who helps people work through those lifetime accumulations. Learn more about her work at https://www.spiritandspacellc.com. 

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Talking about family, with family, can get tricky. Triangulation happens when three are in the conversation--and while it's not always a bad thing, it certainly can be. Psychologist Dr. Emily Williams helps us navigate this choppy sea.

Find out more about our guest and her practice here.

More Than Grand (affiliate link) can help you build great, enduring bonds with your grands and their parents (who are essential to your success!) Use the coupon code GRANDLIFE to save 10% off your order.

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Social anthropologist Dr. Lynsey Farrell talks with Emily and Mike about how grandmothers can be a powerful force for multigenerational change, based on work she did in Africa and resources from her Grandmother Collective. 

RESOURCES

• Lynsey's site is https://www.grandmothercollective.org/
• Mentioned: Marc Freedman, "How To Live Forever: The Enduring Power of Connecting the Generations." See https://www.amazon.com/How-Live-Forever-Connecting-Generations/dp/1541767810
• Freedman's company is https://cogenerate.org/. 

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Emily and Mike recap their extended grand-sitting gig with a charming, challenging toddler. Spoiler: everyone survived.

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Capture your family history from those who lived it, before it's too late. Emily interviews Dr. Elizabeth Keating, author of The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations. Her book is available here and at other bookstores and online sources.

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Most of our grands love stories, don't they? Listening Pond is a podcast full of stories "for kids and their adults," says Asa Gauen, co-creator of this series of fanciful stories in a podcast you can share with your grands. 

"Dragons Are Always Lucky" and its cover art appear courtesy of Listening Pond. Find it on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and on other podcatchers.

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"It takes a village" to raise kids, and we are becoming that village for our toddler grandson while his parents take a long vacation. And how do we feel about this awesome responsibility? Mixed.

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Emily and Mike dig into two risks from the cyberworld that impact grandparents. One is how you use it to share about your grands...and the other is how it uses you, when the bad guys get help from Artificial Intelligence.

These were mentioned in the episode, if you'd like to learn more:

July 1, 2019 “Facebook Fail” The Grand Life Podcast S1E7

Kate Lindsay, “The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified” The Atlantic web, 5/23/23 (may require subscription)

Sharyn Alfonsi, “How con artists use AI, Apps, social engineering to target parents, grandparents for theft.” 60 Minutes 5/21/2023

Christina Ianzito, “Chatbots and Voice-Cloning Fuel Rise in AI-Powered Scams,” AARP.Com, April 17, 2023.

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