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Camp Grandma : next-generation grandparenting -- beyond babysitting / Marianne Waggoner Day.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xxiii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781631525117
  • 1631525115
  • 9781631525124
  • 1631525123
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: a perfect match -- The genesis of Camp Grandma -- Grandparenting 2.0 -- Standing on their shoulders -- A corporate retreat for kids -- Speaking up -- Are you listening? -- Adding value -- Understanding what you have to offer -- Teamwork -- Building your résumé -- Relationships -- Plan your work and work your plan -- The ancestor within -- Run with your strengths -- Reputation and technology -- Unleashing your self-expression -- What we can all learn from the bearded dragon -- The view from the balcony -- Grandparenting 101 -- Raise your hand! -- What's next? -- What's love got to do with it?
Summary: Camp Grandma reveals how a successful businesswoman merged her working career with her role as grandmother--and offers grandparents fun and creative ideas for enriching their relationships with their grandchildren while teaching the children valuable life skills that will help them grow strong and think critically. Readers will be introduced to a compelling, sometimes humorous, and totally unexpected twist on a role people often take for granted--as well as enter into the larger societal conversation we should be having about the possibilities and value of grandparenting, and how the women's movement has reinvigorated and reshaped not only women's approach to being grandmothers but also men's approach to the grandfather role. Warm cookies and milk are still okay, but what if they came with a workshop on goal setting or writing a business plan for the school year? Babysitting? Not even close.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 306.8745 D274 Available 33111009705530
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Warm cookies and milk are still okay, but what if they came with a workshop on goal setting or writing a business plan for the school year? Camp Grandma is full of innovative ideas that Marianne Waggoner Day, a highly successful businesswoman who became a committed and dedicated grandmother, modified from her working life in an effort to connect with her grandchildren. Along the way, she realized that in teaching her grandchildren, she in turn was learning some unexpected and invaluable lessons from them.

Here, Day offers a new and refreshing perspective on grandparenting. Readers will be introduced to a compelling, sometimes humorous, and totally unexpected twist on a role people often take for granted--as well as enter into the larger societal conversation we should be having about the possibilities and value of grandparenting and how the women's movement has reinvigorated and reshaped women's approach to being grandmothers.

Full of ideas and creative ways for grandparents to help their grandchildren grow strong, think critically, and have fun all at the same time, Camp Grandma reveals the importance of grandparenting and the value of passing on traditions, knowledge, and wisdom to the new generation. Babysitter? Not even close.

Includes index.

Camp Grandma reveals how a successful businesswoman merged her working career with her role as grandmother--and offers grandparents fun and creative ideas for enriching their relationships with their grandchildren while teaching the children valuable life skills that will help them grow strong and think critically. Readers will be introduced to a compelling, sometimes humorous, and totally unexpected twist on a role people often take for granted--as well as enter into the larger societal conversation we should be having about the possibilities and value of grandparenting, and how the women's movement has reinvigorated and reshaped not only women's approach to being grandmothers but also men's approach to the grandfather role. Warm cookies and milk are still okay, but what if they came with a workshop on goal setting or writing a business plan for the school year? Babysitting? Not even close.

Introduction: a perfect match -- The genesis of Camp Grandma -- Grandparenting 2.0 -- Standing on their shoulders -- A corporate retreat for kids -- Speaking up -- Are you listening? -- Adding value -- Understanding what you have to offer -- Teamwork -- Building your résumé -- Relationships -- Plan your work and work your plan -- The ancestor within -- Run with your strengths -- Reputation and technology -- Unleashing your self-expression -- What we can all learn from the bearded dragon -- The view from the balcony -- Grandparenting 101 -- Raise your hand! -- What's next? -- What's love got to do with it?

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