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The Granny Nanny: Conscious Grandmothering or What Every Grandmother Should Know about Babysitting

by Lois Young-Tulin

A guide to updating the grandmothering toolkit

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A guide to updating the grandmothering toolkit

Lois Young-Tulin addresses grandmothering as an active caregiving role rather than a simple return to past parenting experience. Drawing on the gap she encountered between raising her own children and helping with a new generation, the book considers how changed guidance, products, and family expectations shape babysitting today. Its organizing framework is twenty principles for “conscious grandmothering,” presenting involvement with grandchildren as a role shaped by deliberate choices and ongoing learning. The emphasis is practical and family-centered: how grandmothers can reconsider familiar assumptions while taking part in a child’s care.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Grandmothers preparing to babysit or provide regular childcare
  • Families discussing grandparents’ roles in child care
  • Readers interested in intergenerational parenting perspectives

Themes

GrandparentingChildcareChanging parenting guidanceFamily rolesIntergenerational learning

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Book overview

Think about it. In order to be grandmothers we once had to be mothers. After giving birth, we, as the mothers, were responsible for our baby's/child's well being. As grandmothers, on the other hand, we have choices. Our roles are open for interpretation and conscious choices. When I became a grandmother, and even when my daughters-in-law were pregnant, I made a conscious decision to be an involved grandmother, one of the caretakers or a Granny-Nanny.

I was sure that helping out and taking care of a baby would be easy like getting back on a bicycle after a twenty-year lapse. Oh, how wrong I was. There are new rules, new products, new findings and plenty of taboos. How did my three children ever survive their hazardous childhoods?

Parenting rules have gone through some serious revisions since author Lois Young-Tulin raised her kids. In her helpful guide, The Granny Nanny, Young-Tulin offers a unique opportunity for today's grandmas to hone their skills and learn the twenty principles for successful grandmothering in a modern world.

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