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The Grand Life: Wholehearted Grandparenting

Grandparenting with our whole hearts takes time and intention. This podcast entertains, educates, and enlightens grandparents who want to become the best they can be. Author Emily Morgan hosts an exploration of grandparenting, the relationships within the role, and the ways in which our grandparenting impacts our children--and their children.

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The Goodbye Episode
Emily, with her husband and producer Mike, explain why it's time to wrap production on The Grand Life Podcast. Emily is full of gratitude for scores of guests, thousands of listeners, and tens of thousands of downloads... but, it's time.
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Chatting With, Talking With
In the final podcast episode of Season 5, Emily and Mike chat about the challenges of talking with grandchildren--when we have so much to tell them! How do our long lives and rich experiences count the most when we are in conversation with our grands?
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Talking WITH Grands
Author and lecturer Dr. Rebecca Rolland talks with Emily about the key ideas in her book The Art of Talking With Children. You'll find in her words some great nuggets of advice when talking WITH, not TO, your grandchildren. Contact Dr. Rolland through her website or on Twitter, @rolland_rg. She ta…
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Chat: Faces and Futures
Emily and husband/producer Mike talk through the experiences of connecting with distant grands using offshoots of the Picturephone, shown in our cover art (a 1964 magazine ad for AT&T). Whether you use Facebook Portal, FaceTime, Zoom, or something else, faces are important on both sides of the conn…
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A Portal to Your Grands
Emily visits with podcast fan Kim from Dallas and learns about a particular kind of "picturephone," the Facebook Portal, that has brought her long-distance grandkids closer. Kim's book recommendations included Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman and The Aminal by Lorna & Lecia Balian.
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Chat: Chef Hats and Grandcamps
Emily and her husband/producer Mike chat about the recent live video episode on cooking with grands (replay here on YouTube). Also, a listener provides a guest essay for "The Stretch It Takes" on a grand camp that included cooking, with cool ideas on what you can do for your own. The recipes for o…
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Cooking With Your Grands, Live on Feb. 5
Our first live video podcast episode, "Cooking With Your Grands," was live on Saturday, Feb. 5 at 12 noon ET. The replay is available on YouTube. Here are the recipes for the live episode, compliments of our Two Chefs: EASY MARINARA 2 - 28 oz. cans Tomato Sauce ¼ cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil 3 …
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Going Forward
Emily and Mike discuss, em, guest digestive privacy after the last episode on food allergies... and the upcoming live video episode on Feb. 5 with Two Chefs in The Kitchen stars John and Patty. Plus, "The Stretch It Takes" is about the sudden transition from losing a family elder to being the eldes…
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Dealing With Food Allergies
Emily gets the full story plus some good advice from Kelli, an experienced young mom whose son has an assortment of food allergies. Grands can learn from their adult kids when cooking and caring for grands with this special challenge. Also, Emily's essay The Stretch It Takes thinks back to when her…
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Learning from Others
Emily's guest is the host of Adventures With Grammy, podcaster Carolyn Berry, who's a lover of genealogy, travel, children's books, and sharing her own memories with her grands. Carolyn and Emily talked about these children's books and authors: --Pat the Bunny --Where The Wild Things Are --Dr. …
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