Keeping in Touch With Grandparents

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We speak to a lot of Grandparents here at Emily Rose.  We love chatting away with excited Grandmothers as we advise and guide them on making the perfect choices for the perfect birthday gift, or little Grandma surprise.

I have a vivid memory of how important my Grandparents were to me as a child.  They lived in London - a three hour drive from where we were on the West coast of England.  Three hours doesn’t seem like a lot - but distances in England seem a little longer when in three hours you have driven most of the way across the country.  We saw them a few times a year and they always arrived bearing presents and cuddles and lots of great stories.  I can remember sitting on the sign-post at the end of the road in great anticipation to see their car turn the corner.

My own daughter lives many, many miles away from her own, very much beloved, Grandparents.  They are in two different states and both sets would require a plane journey for a visit.  As we become a more mobile civilization and jobs and commitments draw us to all parts of the world, I think that Emily’s distance from her Grandparents is not unusual.  The big question is, knowing how important that Grandparent relationship is to our children, how do we help them nurture that relationship so they will have the same sweet Grandparent memories when they grow up?

Luckily our children have a few more resources available to them than we had as children.  We didn’t use the phone very often as it was way too expensive, and we certainly didn’t have computers or video cameras.  We found this great article on eHow that suggests using both modern technology and a good old fashion pen and paper to keep those long-distance relationships flourishing.

You can read it here.