Contributors

Below is a list of some of our Contributors. Feel free to read a little bit about each one and click to read their articles and stories.

DR. LILLIAN CARSON

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Lillian Carson, D.S.W., has been writing the “Ask Grand” column since this magazine’s inception five years ago. A nationally recognized grandparenting expert, she is the author of the best-selling book The Essential Grandparent: A Guide to Making a Difference [http://www.essentialgrandparent.com]. You may submit your questions for Dr. Carson to askgrand@grandmagazine.com.
 

JOAN CRONK

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Joan Cronk and is a freelance writer, and a grandmother. She writes regularly for several local newspapers and has had articles published in the University of Washington Tacoma Literary Magazine.
 

MARC HEQUET

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Marc Hequet is a freelance journalist and long-time contributor to TIME magazine. A Contributing Editor of GRAND magazine, he has two grandchildren and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
 

MARY-COLLEEN JENKINS

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Mary-Colleen Jenkins is a freelance editor who writes the book review blog Too Fond of Books [http://www.toofondofbooks-sea.blogspot.com]. A former Midwesterner, she takes full advantage of the mountains and coastline of the Pacific Northwest, spending as much time as possible skiing with her family and eating lots of great seafood.
 
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GRANDparenting 101

By: Kay Green     http://www.mypreciouskid.com

ABOUT ME: I am a mom of 4 (ages 10-27). I am Nana to 3 (plus a 4th coming this fall). And I have taught a moms class for the last 5 years. Our last child was adopted when I was 40. It has put me in a very unique situation of seeing that parent rules and suggestions have changed for the better. This picture is me with my twin grandsons.

EXAMPLE: my oldest children all slept on their stomach, with bumper pads and quilts in the crib. My last slept only on her back. And now we know that by placing our baby on her back in a crib with no bumpers and no blankets the SIDS risk is greatly reduced.

One of the questions I get from some new moms is “Can my mom come to your class? She wants to do things the old way which I know is not safe”. Grandparents learned one way of parenting. And these new moms have learned other ways. I think it has been a bit easier for me to support my daughters parenting choices since I saw the changes between parenting children in 3 different decades. And sometimes grandparents may feel that their children are saying that they were no good parents. We have to remember that each generation does the best they can with the information they currently have. Read More...

NanaHood

GRAND WISDOM


Hugs and Tweets by Carol Flett

www.christiangrandparents.com

"Grandma, do you know what we haven't done for a long time?" Noelia pulls me toward her as she speaks. The long time refers to at least half a day. I wrap my arms around my…

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For the Health of Your GRANDkids

By: Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest

McDonalds's Lawsuit: Using Toys to Sell Happy Meals

The Center for Science in the Public Interest is a nonprofit health advocacy group based in Washington, DC, that focuses on nutrition, food safety, and pro-health alcohol policies. CSPI is supported by the 900,000 U.S. and Canadian subscribers to its Nutrition Action Healthletter and by foundation grants.

Dangle a toy in front of a child's eyes, and you can bet the child will do just about anything to get it. And that's exactly what McDonald's (and other restaurants) do, using everything from TV commercials to signs in windows to the Internet in order to get kids to pester their parents to take them to the restaurant.

It used to be that parents warned kids to run away from strangers offering candy, but companies have made an end run by laundering their perfidy through electronic media. Now kids absorb countless commercials touting premiums based on their favorite characters -- Shrek, Batman, Barbie, Beanie Babies, etc. -- and, surprise, surprise, ask their parents to take them to McDonald's. Consumer-marketing guru Adam Hanft said, "Happy Meals proved that you could actually 'brand' a meal and make children harass their parents for it." Read More...

The Center for Science in the Public Interest is a nonprofit health advocacy group based in Washington, DC, that focuses on nutrition, food safety, and pro-health alcohol policies. CSPI is supported by the 900,000 U.S. and Canadian subscribers to its Nutrition Action Healthletter and by foundation grants. www.cspinet.org

Encore Parenting

Is There a Bully in All of Us? Healing Bulling in Our Schools, Our Communities and Our World

By: Judith Barr, Author of Power Abused...Power Healed
www.powerabusedpowerhealed.com

Some time ago, many of us were shocked and saddened at reports of the tragic suicide in Massachusetts of Phoebe Prince, a 15-year old high school student who took her own life in the throes of the emotional torment she was suffering as the result of heartless bullying, in school and online.

In response to this event, and an invitation I received to offer some insight into bullying and how we can heal it, I felt called to offer the article below. I hope you will find it inspiring and informative . . . in relation to bullying by anybody in any numbers and in any form. Read More...