Grandparenting Grandchildren: New knowledge and know-how for grandparenting the under 5s

Description

With people staying healthier for longer, grandparents are increasingly involved in raising their grandchildren. Grandparenting Grandchildren is the first guide of its kind written specifically for grandparents, and aims to help you raise well-rounded, ready-to-learn, happy grandchildren, even if you only look after them for a few hours a week. By explaining the latest neuro-developmental and neuro-educational research in accessible, applicable ways, it will reaffirm what you instinctively know, while providing new tools to build your grandchild's imagination, creativity and curiosity. Combining the authors' practical experience as childhood development professionals with international research, this book helps grandparents understand the key influences on healthy development in the first 5 years: movement, music, sleep and food. Grandparenting Grandchildren gives practical advice on how to integrate these 'super brain foods' best in your grandchild's life. This has been proven to have many positive benefits, including improving the ability to think creatively, building speech and language skills, promoting social skills, and driving curiosity. Learn to build a loving, supportive relationship that helps grandchildren feel positive about their future, while constructing essential life skills that ensure they are well-rounded, happy and capable, confident learners.

Dr Jane Williams has been working with families and young children for over 45 years. She is the Director of ToddlerROO, KindyROO and GymbaROO, and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the College of Health Sciences at James Cook University, Queensland. Dr Tessa Grigg is the Research and Education Manager for ToddlerROO, KindyROO and GymbaROO, and a part-time lecturer and teaching assistant at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has extensive experience in teaching and child development.

"Grandparents are increasingly caring for their children, often all day, not just slipping them a cheeky $5 note from up their sleeve during occasional pop-ins, served with cake and tea" * The Canberra Times * Provides the tools you need to build your grandchildren's imaginations and strengthen the relationship. It talks about key influences on healthy development of the under fives and re affirms what you instinctively know. * Reader's Digest * "For grandparents to help them raise well rounded, ready to learn, emotionally resilient grandchildren ... a great guide for spotting and responding to signs along the developmental pathway. Explore and learn together." * Earth Garden * "a child rearing guide, but addressed specifically to grandparents who are actively engaged in raising pre-schoolers. It covers all the hot topics ... behaviour and discipline, eating and nutrition, sleep and healthy physical and cognitive development. I'll be re-visiting this book again and again, as we face new hurdles with our grandkids, or need to adapt our play to their next stage of development." * Reading Time * "Combining the author's practical experience as childhood development professionals with the latest international research into the brain, the book helps people understand the key influencers on healthy development in grandchild's first five years." * Have a Go News * "While grandparents are increasingly being drafted to raise their children's offspring the rules are not always clear cut. Dr Jane Williams, co-author of Grandparenting Grandchildren reveals how to navigate some of the trickier aspects of the role." * Australian Women's Weekly * "Dr Jane Williams, co-author with Dr Tessa Grigg of the non-fiction book, Grandparenting Grandchildren: New Knowledge and Know-how for Grandparenting Under 5s fills us in on exactly how to establish and maintain the magic (of the special grandparent-grandchild relationship)" * Kids' Book Review * "Podcast host John Deeks speaks with Dr Jane Williams about the latest research on how children's brains work and how grandparents can initiate activities that involve movement, activity, imagination and music. Dr Williams offers practical advice on what is important in building a loving, supportive relationship with the grandchildren." * Your Life Choices Podcast * Grandparenting Grandchildren would be a wonderful gift to give to a new grandparent (or parent). The information is so interesting and relevant that it needs to be shared. * Blue Wolf Reviews *