501 Practical Ways to Love Your Grandkids and Their ParentsThese 501 ideas (more than a year's worth!) show grandparents how to step out of the everyday routine to express love to their grown children and grandkids in meaningful, creative ways. Each practical, Christ-centered suggestion brings wonderful opportunities for families to celebrate faith, values and love together. |
Contents
A Note from the Author | 9 |
You Cant Just Sit There | 11 |
Helping Them Write Their Chapters of Life | 15 |
Being the Someone Who Cares | 19 |
Caring in the Minors | 24 |
Children Are Not Little Adults | 27 |
Good Manners | 31 |
A Code of Behavior | 34 |
The Different Faces of Love | 110 |
Outdoing One Another in Love | 114 |
Do Not Be Afraid | 118 |
The Destructive Nature of Deceitfulness | 122 |
Having Fun with Your Grandchildren | 126 |
Between Now and Then | 129 |
Are You My Mother? | 133 |
TV at Grandmas | 137 |
Speaking the Truth in Love | 38 |
Memories of Days Past | 43 |
No Need for God | 47 |
LongDistance Grandparenting | 50 |
Intimate Communication | 55 |
Living Life to the Fullest | 59 |
Advocates for the Way Things Used to Be | 63 |
Warning No Pontificating | 67 |
Replacing Anger with Forgiveness | 71 |
Daddy Is Heaven Real? | 75 |
Home as a Grace Place | 79 |
Taking Responsibility | 82 |
Giving the Gift of Time | 85 |
Compromising | 88 |
No Shortcuts in Life | 92 |
Yuck Kiss a Girl? Never | 95 |
Whatever Happened ? | 99 |
Effective Communication | 103 |
Doing It Over Again | 107 |
When One Is a Favorite | 141 |
When in Rome Do As the Romans Do | 144 |
Chosen | 148 |
Words with Boundaries | 152 |
The Power of the Gospel | 156 |
The Lesson of Age | 160 |
Refusing to Spoil Them | 163 |
Not Just a BabySitter | 166 |
The Grandness of Grandparents | 170 |
Let Them Know They Can | 173 |
Gods Justice Will Prevail | 176 |
Behavior Modification through Embarrassment | 180 |
Tell Me What You Know | 184 |
Intercede for Your Grandchildren | 187 |
Maintaining Your Own Identity | 191 |
The Value of Ritual | 194 |
An Earthly Story with a Heavenly Meaning | 197 |
Leaving a Legacy | 201 |
Copyright | |