Grandparents Rights

Welcome to all Grandparents that are joyfully active in your grandchildren's lives with little or no need to invoke your grandparents rights. This is the section of the web site reserved for stories of good and fun times. Enough of the grandparents visitation rights worries. Feel free to share your stories of those warm and meaningful moments with those little grand angels. You have come to the right place.


My New Grandparents Rights Book – Now Available

September 23, 2010, 06:44:41 PM

I have just published the definitive volume on Grandparents Rights today. My new book No Greater Loss: The Guidebook to Today’s Grandparents Rights is now available in print. It contains everything you need to know about Grandparents Rights regarding visitation, custody, guardianship and much more.

I have written this book to help bridge the gap between Logic and Law. Grandparents have provided and still Read More

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Granparents guardianship: Is it an opiton in your state?

June 15, 2010, 11:12:08 AM

Some states allow grandparents guardianship, which is a category between grandparents visitation and grandparents custody. Guardianship has the same effect as providing parental authority to a grandparent (or in some cases another third party). Generally, guardianship is less permanent than custody.

To find out if your state has the option of granting grandparent guardianship consult Read More

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Useful thoughts about grandparents connecting with their grandkids

April 03, 2010, 04:40:06 PM

It all starts when that little bundle of joy wraps his or her tiny hand around Grandpa’s finger.

Now they have you……forever. Don’t fight it, the struggle is useless, you are hooked. The journey has begun. This is to be a journey of discovery for the new grandparents and for the repeat grandparents, still a thrill all the same.

After 6 grandchildren in the past 20 years I can attest that each time is breathtaking, awesome and wonderful. Aren’t you glad to hear Read More

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Parents rights in harmony with grandparent rights

March 25, 2010, 08:01:08 AM

Check out the article I’ve just had published on parents rights and granparents rights on Ezine@rticles!

I really think that it goes to the heart of these issues.

I want to trumpet, declare and celebrate the fact that parents rights are and should be superior to grandparents rights. As a grandfather I am in awe of the great job my children and their spouses are doing in raising our grandchildren to be loving and lovable human beings.

I don’t foresee any need for me to ev Read More

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Baby-Boomers are now Grand-Boomers

February 16, 2010, 05:36:10 PM

It is official, the baby-boomer generation has entered into the grandparents right of passage. Since the definition of a baby boomer is anyone born between 1946 and 1964 and the average age for a new grandparent is 48 that places a lot of those folks into what is being called the Grand-Boomers. I kind of like that term even though I am too old to qualify.

This classification was significant enough that AARP did a breakout study of this age group in it’s 2002 “Grandparent Study Report”. What they found is that the Grand-Boomers are a little bit different than previous generations of grandparents. As a group they are more physically active with their grandchildren which may be a function of the age of the new grandparents coming down over the pas Read More

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IS SPOILING ONE OF THE GRANDPARENTS RIGHTS?

January 22, 2010, 06:47:13 PM
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We all fall into the conversation about our grandkids and how we looooove to spoil them.  I happen to think it is one of our GRANDPARENTS RIGHTS to spoil our grandchildren, however we can choose three roads to that end.      1)  We can give them anything they want and watch them turn green from eating too much candy, soft drinks and ice cream.  2) We can give them Read More

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THE PURSUIT OF JOY AND HAPPINESS

November 08, 2009, 10:05:42 AM

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“The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy.  The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.”           WILLIAM LYON PHELPS

I just turned 65 last week and it has provided me with a reason to reflect.  One of the neat things about grandparents is that we have an easy time finding Joy in our grandkids and happiness in watching our kids raise them.  If you are someone who has trouble seeing the Joy that is created and Read More

Useful thoughts about grandparents connecting with their grandkids

October 12, 2009, 03:36:48 PM
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It all starts when that little bundle of joy wraps his or her tiny hand around Grandpa’s finger. Now they have you……forever. Don’t fight it, the struggle is useless, you are hooked. The journey has begun. This is to be a journey of discovery for the new grandparents and for the repeat grandparents, still a thrill all the same. After 6 grandchildren in the past 20 years I can attest that each time is breathtak Read More

5 THINGS TO CONSIDER ABOUT GRANDPARENTS EXERCISING

August 20, 2009, 06:49:59 AM

YUCK! you say?  I can’t blame you, however there are some important considerations about exercise since most of us can’t recall our last marathon,  well maybe the new grandparents can, but I am just two months away from  my 65th and I don’t choose to be a poster child for old folks running 26 miles.

Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul Books Co-Author) tells the story of a 95 year old banquet waiter Read More

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