Love Across the Miles: How to Stay Close to Long Distance Grandchildren

By Kayann Marceline

There’s no reason to be a stranger to your grandchildren. Don’t allow a few miles or a few thousand miles prevent you from taking an active and vital role in your grandchildren’s lives. Love Across the Miles: How to Stay Close to Long Distance Grandchildren is crammed with ideas and suggestions for forming loving and lasting bonds with grandchildren of all ages, no matter how distant they may be. There are activities to share across the miles, thoughts about how your interest in their passions can bring you close together, information about free and easy communication technology to bring them right into your home, how to use good old-fashioned communications tools to your best advantage, suggestions for keeping the peace with parents, and tips for economical travel. Your grandchildren need you, no matter where they live, and their love for you is the most precious gift you will ever receive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kayann Marceline
• Release date: Apr 24, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476423142

Kayann Marceline

Kayann Marceline is the long distance grandmother to six grandchildren. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and her grandkids live in Oregon and Belgium. Her mission is to spread the word that no matter how far grandmas and grandpas live from their grandchildren, they can still form and maintain close, loving bonds. She has been working at staying connected with her brood for fifteen years.

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Love Across the Miles: How to Stay Close to Long Distance Grandchildren

A Guide for Grandparents to Bridge the Gap to Grandkids Across the Country or Around the World

1st Edition 04/12

Kayann Marceline

Published by Kayann Marceline

Copyright 2012

Kayann Marceline

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This book is dedicated to my amazing grandchildren who have inspired me to know them and bond with them with love across the miles. They always bring me joy and hope, and laughter, and I love each and every one of them for their unique and always interesting personalities.

Thank you to my friend and editor Lynn Merrill for encouraging me to actually publish this book.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Calling Long Distance

Chapter 2 - Creating Connections

Chapter 3 - Keeping the Peace

Chapter 4 - Off You Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder

Chapter 5 - Over the River and Through the Woods

Chapter 6 - Travel Tips

Chapter 7 - Take Care of Yourself

Chapter 8 - Why Grandkids and Grandparents Need Each Other

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Introduction

A six-year old was asked where his grandma lived. Oh, he said, she lives at the airport and when we want her we just go get her. Then when we’re done having her visit, we take her back to the airport. Such is the plight of the long-distance grandparent. Grandparents living far from grandchildren want more than a token role in their lives. They don’t want to be strangers but may not know how to reach out and connect with