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Are You Searching For Support?

AFGGC can help you with your grandparent-grandchild visitation issues

Dear Susan,

My friend Joy found your support group listing in the city news magazine The Newport Navigator, which is how I learned about your organization, Advocates for Grandparent-Grandchild Connection. All this time I thought that I was the only one going through this. I never [...]

Looking for Love

Tips for the newly single: make sure you look in all the right places

By Dr. Dorree Lynn

Dr Dorree

Are you back in the dating scene and feeling a bit overwhelmed? Relax. Step 1: Breathe. Step 2: Don’t panic. This is an exciting adventure! You’re about to learn new things about yourself as [...]

Who Will Remember You? Your Grandkids?

By:  Lily Prellezo

 

Who will remember you when you’re dead and gone? Will your legacy simply fill a rectangle on a family tree or will the people on the lower branches remember who you were, where you were born, what school you attended, your struggle, the endearments you called your spouse, your favorite ice [...]

Guiding your Grandgrandchildren’s Career Direction

For many, interests in an adult career are revealed in childhood. For many adults that don’t know what they want to do when they grow up, returning to childhood to re-evaluate their skills and talent can open doors of surprisingly new opportunity. For grandparents, how can you direct your young grandchildren to begin the process [...]

What Grandparents Might Like to Know before They Take Their Grandkids to see “The Hunger Games.”

Ranny Levi, Founder and President, KIDS FIRST! / Coalition for Quality Children’s Media

If you haven’t already seen this film and your grandkids are clamoring to go, let us help you make the decision of whether its right for them or not. This film, based on the best-selling book, has been hugely popular with tweens [...]

Grandma’s Old Fashioned Remedies – Still Good Today

As a modern day grandma,  I look for all the latest and greatest ways to keep me and my grandkids healthy.  However, these good old fashioned solutions are still worth considering.

Grandmas always seem to know it all don’t they? Well, here are some unique and wonderful old-fashioned remedies you may not have heard before [...]

Social Security Keeping Older Women Out of Poverty

By:  AARP

More than one in four older women rely on Social Security for nearly all their family income. In 2010 alone, Social Security kept roughly 38 percent of women age 65 and older out of poverty.

Social Security is especially important to women today because:

 Women typically earn less on average than men do, [...]