Posts Tagged ‘grandparents’
The Village helps grandparent/kinship caregivers in need – Herb Weiss
By Herb Weiss, contributing writer on aging issues When we dream about our retirement years, these dreams most likely don’t include images of diapers, children’s tantrums, and school buses. However, for some grandparents and other kinship caregivers, their later years include these images, as they become primary caregivers for their grandchildren/kin children. Nationally, more than 2.5…
Read MoreNourishment for the soul of grandparents – by Toby Simon/ConvergenceRI
Nourishment for the soul – in a pandemic, when grandkids connect with grandparents Photo: Ray practicing Taekwondo on Zoom as part of her Kindergarten classes. As Joe Biden looked out at an audience of senior citizens and asked earnestly: “How many of you haven’t been able to hug your grandchildren for the past 8 months?”…
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