Distance grandparenting

Many families now live a long way apart, with family members working in different states and countries, so you might not be near your grandchildren.

You can still keep the links open and support your grandchildren.

• Offer to have the grandchildren to visit you on holiday - together or one at a time. Children get benefits from individual relationships with grandparents, not always in a group.
  
  
• Visit them.
  
  
• Keep regular telephone contact.
  
  
• Write letters, send tapes or videos and include family stories in them.
  
  
• Develop some new family traditions for managing birthdays etc.