Grandparenting: On Love and Relationships Across Generations [Paperback]

Grandparenting?is a long-awaited, well-informed, personal and well-researched insight into what it means to be a grandparent... A wonderful book JULIA SAMUEL, author of?Every Family Has a Story

The birth of a grandchild is a cause for celebration. But when a child becomes a parent themselves, existing family structures are radically altered. Old tensions between parents and their adult children may come into sharp relief, while new relationships with in-laws must be navigated carefully. And at the heart of two families is a small person, whose life will benefit hugely from the love of their grandparents.

In this warm, wise guide to being a modern grandparent, leading psychologist Terri Apter builds on cutting edge research as well as her own experience as a grandparent. Drawing on case studies from across the world, Apter examines the crucial and changing role that grandparents play in our society, from those grandparents who find themselves caring for a grandchild, to how to support a grandchild through their parents divorce.

This innovative book is for grandparents and for their adult children as they reimagine their relationships with each other, and become the best parents  and grandparents  that they can be.

Terri Apter?is a psychologist, writer and Fellow Emerita of Newnham College Cambridge.?She is the author of many critically acclaimed books on family dynamics, including?Altered Loves: Mothers and Daughters During Adolescence?(aNew York TimesNotable Book of the Year), andThe Confident Child(winner of the Delta Kappa Gamma International Educators Prize). Her reviews and articles have appeared in theGuardian, theTLS, theFinancial Times, theNew York Times?BookReview, and thePsychologist, and she is a regular blogger forPsychology Today. Raised in Chicago, she moved to the UK tolƒI