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Wondrous Child The Joys and Challenges of Grandparenting

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ISBN-10: 1583943625

ISBN-13: 9781583943625

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lindy Hough, Jane Isay

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A Santa Cruz postpartum doula, a New Hampshire flute-maker, a Zen teacher, a dance therapist, a Sri Lankan film director—these are a few of the grandparents who share their stories in this bracing collection. The essays cover a wide range of experiences as they examine the marrow of this often undervalued relationship from both the grandparent and the grandchild point of view. A common thread running throughout is the special importance of these relationships, which are often as complex and rewarding as the parent-child connection. Wondrous Child is divided into four parts. In Part One, “Settling In,” new grandparents survey the territory and describe their expectations. Part Two,…    
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List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 3/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Lindy Hough was cofounder of the seminal literary magazineIo,which began in 1964, and is cofounder and publisher of North Atlantic Books. She has published four books of poetry and her fiction and poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines. She coeditedNuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior, a collection of antinuclear literature. She recently finished a novel calledShades of Blue.She lives in Maine and northern California.

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Settling In
Wild Thing Baby
Following Fifi
In the Order of Things
Talking about Race and Gender
In and Out of Step
The Whirling Heart Dance of Grandmothering
Carving Paths in Snow
Listening to Leo
Balancing Reality and Hope
Evolving as a Grandmother
Grandparenting with a Broken Heart
Professional Grandma
Confessions of a New Step-Grandparent
Love through the Distances
Four Generations of First-Born Daughters
Twins�Day and Night
The Accidental Grandmother
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
A Heart's Perspective
An Explosion of Love
The Grampy Diaries
A Legacy of Parenting
My Grandkids Keep Me Young
Being There for a Child Forever
Grandchildren Remember
Hark, the Moaning Pond
Calling Clotilde
The Collapse
Grandmother's Lap
The Russian Album
Angels Gather Here
Obaachan: What Do You Want to Do?
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