100 Tips for Long-Distance Grandmothers

Staying Close to Grandchildren You Don't See Every Day

von Claire Hollis

136 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Every book on this shelf assumes the grandchild is down the street.Baking together on a Tuesday. The school run. Dropping by unannounced. None of that works when the nearest airport is a two-hour drive and a flight away, and the books that pretend otherwise leave a long-distance grandmother feeling like she is doing this wrong.This book is not that. It is written for a grandmother whose grandchild lives a plane ride, not a drive, away - because a son or daughter relocated, or because she did. It treats short visits, screens, the postal service and other people's daily decisions as the normal shape of the job, not a poor substitute for the real one.One hundred concrete actions. Each one ends with a single thing to do this week.- Calls and video that a small child will actually sit still for- Making a short visit count more than a long one ever could- Mail, parcels and small rituals that arrive between visits- The parents' household, their rules, and staying inside them- Missing a birthday, a first step, a first day of school- The other grandparents, and not competing with them- Building a life at home that does not just wait for the phone to ring- What to do with the ache nobody quite prepares you forNo guilt about the distance. No pressure to move. No pretending it is the same as living nearby - because it is not, and the reader already knows that. What this book offers instead is the practical method for building a genuinely close relationship inside the distance that actually exists.Every chapter says at the start who it is for and what to skip, because not every family here looks the same - some assume two parents, some assume one, and skipping is how a handbook is meant to work.If what you want is not another reminder that video calls exist, but a plain list of things you could actually do this week, this is that book.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175750639
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published