Saturday, April 2, 2011
Another cool grandparent quote...
Grandparents are the footsteps to the future generations. ~author unknown
A cool grandparent quote...
What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure. ~Gene Perret
Music hath charms...
There is a simple enough thing to do for your grandchildren. Do you have a CD player, through your computer or an old "boom box"?
There are CD's for babies using classical music. Whether YOU like, have, appreciate, whatever your word is about it, babies respond happily to it, especially Mozart. Some have referred to it as the "Mozart Effect" (http://www.parenting-baby.com/Parenting-Baby-Music-Research/Music-Research.html). Honest, music does indeed hath charms to sooth the savage beast...or the crying baby. :-)
It's wonderful music for the child
as he or she plays as well.
I know the power of music after my stroke - I talk now. I credit God's working through music for me. Whether Mozart (or Brahms or Beethoven) will get your grandchild talking faster, I don't know, but there is no doubt music will benefit
them!
As I write this, I'm listening to Mozart in a CD called "Music for the Mozart Effect, Vol. 1. Check Amazon for CD's worth your grandchildrens' time, even the babies. For those wanting more info, there are books
about the Mozart Effect. Check
the variety
that's available
to you.
Enjoy great music
and watch the benefit
you offer to your grandchildren, for the cost of a CD
.
C-ya
-Grandpa George
There are CD's for babies using classical music. Whether YOU like, have, appreciate, whatever your word is about it, babies respond happily to it, especially Mozart. Some have referred to it as the "Mozart Effect" (http://www.parenting-baby.com/Parenting-Baby-Music-Research/Music-Research.html). Honest, music does indeed hath charms to sooth the savage beast...or the crying baby. :-)
It's wonderful music for the child
as he or she plays as well. I know the power of music after my stroke - I talk now. I credit God's working through music for me. Whether Mozart (or Brahms or Beethoven) will get your grandchild talking faster, I don't know, but there is no doubt music will benefit
them!As I write this, I'm listening to Mozart in a CD called "Music for the Mozart Effect, Vol. 1. Check Amazon for CD's worth your grandchildrens' time, even the babies. For those wanting more info, there are books
about the Mozart Effect. Check the variety that's available to you.Enjoy great music
and watch the benefit you offer to your grandchildren, for the cost of a CD.C-ya
-Grandpa George
Friday, April 1, 2011
You AIN'T your grandparents
There are a few things society has changed since you were growing up, and visited your grandparents. Your grandparents (like mine) were OLD people, unlike us...right?
But it's more than that. I grew up when Eisenhower was the President; there we feared the Russians and 'The Bomb', but the economy was OK. Today many or out of work, or par-time or working several jobs. Ethics and morals are also very different as well.
Our kids are working full-time and sometimes, the grandparents become cheaper day-care. It's not how many dreamed it would be. But you do what you must.
When I started this blog, I just learned I was to be a grandpa. I was excited and naivete. I want to change it a bit to make it a more practical place for grandparents to go.I'm still a bit of both of those, but listening to the stories of other grandparents.
We lived too far from our grandkids (right now, there are two), and my wife sends a book to each of them once a month. She was and is a very good teacher, and she want her grandkids to grow up literate. This is a very simple way to let them know of Grandma's love...and that books are really cool and fun!
I hope to have other ideas, not from my brain but from the other grandparents I know and talk to. Do you have things you do with your grandchildren that we would benefit from hearing?
Thanks for your input!
-Grandpa George
But it's more than that. I grew up when Eisenhower was the President; there we feared the Russians and 'The Bomb', but the economy was OK. Today many or out of work, or par-time or working several jobs. Ethics and morals are also very different as well.
Our kids are working full-time and sometimes, the grandparents become cheaper day-care. It's not how many dreamed it would be. But you do what you must.
When I started this blog, I just learned I was to be a grandpa. I was excited and naivete. I want to change it a bit to make it a more practical place for grandparents to go.I'm still a bit of both of those, but listening to the stories of other grandparents.
We lived too far from our grandkids (right now, there are two), and my wife sends a book to each of them once a month. She was and is a very good teacher, and she want her grandkids to grow up literate. This is a very simple way to let them know of Grandma's love...and that books are really cool and fun!
I hope to have other ideas, not from my brain but from the other grandparents I know and talk to. Do you have things you do with your grandchildren that we would benefit from hearing?
Thanks for your input!
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