{"id":31921,"date":"2020-09-13T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T07:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=31921"},"modified":"2020-09-13T00:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T07:01:14","slug":"grandparents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/grandparents-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandparents Day Is Today — How to Grandparent and Why"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Grandparents<\/a>
In honor of Grandparents Day today, I pulled out this old photo of two Grandpa Falconers sitting on a porch in Scottville, Michigan in the 1940s. The men are my father and grandfather. The little guy is my big brother, now a Grandpa Falconer in his own right. Photo by Tinka Falconer<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s Grandparents Day today, and I’m wondering — grandparenting, how do you do it? I’ve been mulling that question since 2016, when Grandchild No. 1 arrived on the scene, and I still haven’t a clue.<\/p>\n

Why do it? Because we can’t help ourselves.<\/p>\n

Here are some stories that take on those questions.<\/p>\n

Grandp<\/a>arenting Via Webam — Helping Out Those Frazzled Parents<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"Grandparents<\/a>
Babysitting via webcam. Jon and I tried it with mixed results. Here, our grandchildren Skype with the The Library Lady — that’s me. Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Grandchild Is Born — And So Is A Grandpa<\/a><\/h2>\n
\"grandparents<\/a>
My son Peter berry picking with his Grandpa. My father had no problem with being called Grandpa. But at least one guy I know\u00a0 couldn’t go there — at first. Read more<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Grandparent's<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s Grandparents Day today. How to be a grandparent? I haven’t a clue. Why do we do it? I have some thoughts on that one.\u00a0 Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30],"tags":[1859,454,2359,2360,508,536,2361],"class_list":["post-31921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","category-my-changing-family","tag-dad","tag-family","tag-grandchildren","tag-grandpa-falconer","tag-grandparents","tag-scottville","tag-skype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}