Christian Grandparenting Blog

This is the second installment of Tips for Grandparents with Special Needs Grandchildren with guest blogger and expert in special needs families, Bob West. Bob is founder and president of Need Project providing support and resources for special...

No grandparent, or parent, is really prepared for the birth of a special needs grandchild. As a grandparent how do I engage with this new reality and become a conduit of blessing for that child and family? I’ve asked my good friend, Bob West, to...

Grandpause: Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. (Prov. 31:30) If you’re a grandmother, you know full well the challenges of being a mother and a grandmother. You also know there is a reason...

  Next Sunday is Mothers’ Day when we pay tribute to all the moms who have given so much and deserve to be praised. In anticipation of Mothers’ Day, I want to pay tribute to the grandest of moms—grandmothers, moms twice or more. In...

  Reader’s Digest has always featured a section in their magazine entitled Laughter is the Best Medicine. It would be hard to dispute that statement. I love a good laugh and I love hearing others laugh. I always feel better after a good...

  Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all! Isaac Watts I often hear children sing a song in children’s ministries across America that I absolutely loath. It is called Jesus, You’re My Superhero. Here are a few of the...

Because he followed the Lord, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly… Joshua 14:14  A man truly worthy of the title of ‘hero’ is a man named Caleb. Caleb, along with Joshua, was one of the twelve spies sent to spy out the land God had promised to...

  No one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much…and with them, persecutions. (Mark 29-30) There are certain true heroes of the...

During one children’s program, several children were asked about their families. When asked who his hero was, one young boy responded without hesitation, “My Dad!” What can give greater joy than to hear a child or grandchild make a statement like...

  When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. (I Cor. 13:11) What do you believe about adolescence? Do you know where this idea originated? How...