One of the best parts of being a grandparent is having the time that isn’t always available when you’re raising your own children to enjoy and have fun with your grandkids. In this issue you’ll find out how to have twice the fun without any of the worry! Read about empowering our granddaughters, books about kids and their grandparents, toys that do nothing (so kids can do the rest!), grandparent sleepovers and dispatches from a working grandmother. Read about 5 fun things to do in Parksville-Qualicum, and find out how to nurture a sense of place in kids.
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.