Zoom. FaceTime. Facebook Messenger. Skype. If you are like 38 per cent of grandparents surveyed for a new study, you use video chat to communicate and stay in touch with your grandkids. In this issue, you’ll find ways to stay connected with your grandchildren and the importance of kids having their grandparents as allies. Looking for some fun things to do with your grandkids? Look no further: on the following pages you’ll find 7 things to do with your grandkids, how to keep cool in regional parks and activities this summer at Swan Lake.
GRAND celebrates who you are as a grandparent and who you are as an individual. You love spending time with your grandchildren and you’re happy in your other roles: at work, in the community and on your own. We’re an active and diverse group—an engaged, evolving and powerful force. We’re mentors, nurturers, keepers of secrets. We’re caregivers, child care providers, dessert-before-dinner defenders. We’re historians, spiritual guides and the holders of family stories.