Christian Grandparenting Blog

Four Kinds of Grandparents – Part Two It’s a new year! A time for some new beginnings. I’ve never been a fan of New Year’s Resolutions, but there is one resolution I would get behind as opportunity to impact another generation. It’s the resolution of [...]

Do you remember this children’s Christmas song?… You better watch out, you better not cry,You better not pout, I’m telling you why,Santa Claus is comin’ to town…He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice,Gonna find out who’s naughty or nice.Santa Claus is comin’ to town. [...]

My favorite Christmas carol is Charles Wesley’s Hark! The Herald Angelsl Sing. It’s a carol rich with truth and powerful images of Christ’s glory as the Prince of Peace, and a moving declaration of His divine humility – “Mild He lays His glory by; Born [...]

  The first ever national Grandparenting Summit (conference) in Frisco, Texas is history. What an amazing experience being part of a movement of God to call an army of godly grandparents to a life of intentionality that matters for our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Larry [...]

Traditions for the sake of tradition tend toward irrelevance. However, traditions rooted in meaning and purpose, when observed with intentionality and some measure of creativity, can be transformational. Advent is one of those traditions. It is also one often neglected or ignored. Today is the [...]

  I will make every effort to see that after my departureyou will always be able to remember these things.  2 Peter 1:15 What do tattoos and intentional grandparents have in common? Valerie Bell, CEO of Awana, addressed 800 grandparents last week at the National [...]

Only be careful, and watch yourselves closelyso that you do not forget. (Deut. 4:9) Which is easiest to remember—the positive things that have happened to you, or the negative, painful things? We have a propensity as human being to remember the negative things more easily [...]

Being a Grandparent of a Child with Special Needs Emily Pearl Kingsley wrote an article in 1987, called Welcome to Holland, about her journey as the mother of a child with disability. Essentially, it was about how being a parent of a child with disability [...]