Distance Grandparenting

Many families now live a long way apart, with family members working in different states and countries, so you might not be near your grandchildren. You can still have a loving relationship with, and give support to, your grandchildren.

• Offer to have the grandchildren to visit you on holiday - together or one at a time. Children get benefits from individual relationships with grandparents, not always in a group.
• Visit them.
• Keep regular telephone contact.
• Write letters, send tapes or videos and include family stories in them.
• Develop some new family traditions for managing birthdays etc.
• Email messages to your grandchildren so they can reply and include some photos.

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