Well here is the first of Many posts to come!
I am a 48-year-old Baby Boomer. One of about 40 million ‘Grand-Boomers’ in the U.S. who are redefining the stereotypical role of Grandparenting that we grew up with. I became a full-time mom again at the age of 41 to twins, my grand-daughters. Six years later they went to live with their mom full-time. The whole roller-coaster of emotions and dynamics of circumstances,…has left me anxious to talk to other grandparents now. Grandparenting in the 21st century is not for the weak at heart!
As the dynamics of the family have splintered over the last five decades it made it more important than ever, that Boomers step up to the plate and offer some stability to generational connections. The close-knit support systems that were in place when I was a kid like extended families, churches, and neighbors have unraveled and fallen to the wayside. And the Boomer Grandparents, like myself, WE are what is left of them.
I don’t know about everyone else,..but I have bonded with my grandchildren in a way I never did with my own kids. I was too busy executing my role as “super-parent” and running myself ragged in order to ensure my kids had everything I didn’t. Bonding wasn’t a priority, ‘doing’ was and I thought it would add up to the same thing. It didn’t. Parenting exhausted me!!
The truth is – Grandparenting is a breath of fresh air after parenting!
It’s a chance to start with a clean-slate. The opportunity to focus. I feel like I have just the right mix of ‘what’s important and what’s not’ under my belt that only people who have ‘been-there done-that’ can have. I am not trying to figure out who ‘I am’,…while trying to give them a sense of who ‘they are’.
I look forward to sharing,…and being shared with! Please feel free to post comments! I look to our conversations 
Kath
