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Keeping a 'Young' Heart
I posted this in another Group, and thought it should be here, as well:
My ten year old Granddaughter just returned home, after visiting us for two weeks. She and I had a conversation one day, concerning one's 'inner child'.
She's headed for fifth grade this year, and while we were baking cookies she brought up how she was beginning to grow-up. I agreed, and said she was getting to be a 'young lady', as opposed to being a child, a 'little girl'. She said she knew, but, was, in her words, 'kind of sad because she would be leaving behind her little girl part'.
I told her then, that she would never lose the child within her, as long as she never allowed her heart to grow old. I explained that if she kept a sense of wonder, at the world around her, if she never lost her love of learning, her love of new experiences, her feeling of WOW! I'm ALIVE! the little girl she had been would always be right there, with her, ready to help the grown-up her to fully enjoy everything life has to offer.
My Granddaughter then paid me a fine compliment. She said, 'I'll be like you then, Grams. Because you don't have an old heart.'
My ten year old Granddaughter just returned home, after visiting us for two weeks. She and I had a conversation one day, concerning one's 'inner child'.
She's headed for fifth grade this year, and while we were baking cookies she brought up how she was beginning to grow-up. I agreed, and said she was getting to be a 'young lady', as opposed to being a child, a 'little girl'. She said she knew, but, was, in her words, 'kind of sad because she would be leaving behind her little girl part'.
I told her then, that she would never lose the child within her, as long as she never allowed her heart to grow old. I explained that if she kept a sense of wonder, at the world around her, if she never lost her love of learning, her love of new experiences, her feeling of WOW! I'm ALIVE! the little girl she had been would always be right there, with her, ready to help the grown-up her to fully enjoy everything life has to offer.
My Granddaughter then paid me a fine compliment. She said, 'I'll be like you then, Grams. Because you don't have an old heart.'
Grandchildren
A question for Grandparents, and soon-to-be-Grandparents: What do Grandchildren mean to you?
Fun For Grandparents
Just a bit of fun! Create 'fake' magazine covers, using your own pics, like the one below of my Granddaughter, Miss Juli.
Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com
Create Fake Magazine Covers with your own picture at MagMyPic.com
It's Summertime!
I have a feeling my husband and I aren't the only Grandparents who have been a tad busy! We've had visits form children and Grandchildren since the first week in June. It's been a busy month! And we've loved every minute of it!
For all you Grandparents out there with Granddaughters, I have a great website for you, especially if your Granddaughter is Horse-Crazy.
Visit:
BellaSara
My Granddaughter and I both have accounts, and really enjoy the site.
In Touch With Jeannine
For all you Grandparents out there with Granddaughters, I have a great website for you, especially if your Granddaughter is Horse-Crazy.
Visit:
BellaSara
My Granddaughter and I both have accounts, and really enjoy the site.
In Touch With Jeannine
My Duty as a Grandparent
I'm certain there are many Grandparents here who feel as I do, concerning our grandchildren. That our Grands are absolutely loved by us, is a given. Time spent with them is precious, and golden, and soul satisfying. Yet, along with the selfish pleasure I take in the company of my Grands, there is also a sense of duty I feel toward them. I feel, deeply, that it is my responsibility to further their understanding of life, to teach them, in a palatable manner, all of importance that my years of living have taught me.
In doing so, I realize how incredibly important are the most basic principles involved in living a good life: Personal honor, the ability to empathize and sympathize with other human beings, the ability to love, and the responsibility that comes with loving, and being loved, the importance of avoiding the Herd mentality, the importance of possessing courage in one's life, and that human beings were born with a conscience for a reason.
It is my duty, as a grandparent to reinforce the important teachings of my Grands' parents, not in words, but in practice. It is my duty to prove an example of what it really means to age, wiping from my Grands' minds the media inspired unreal image of older people. Images inspired by the ridiculous notion of older folks as grasping frantically after their vanished youth, or the equally distasteful image of the sour faced individual, for whom life no longer holds any pleasure, I tirelessly work to dispel.
Love and Duty walk hand in hand.
In Touch With Jeannine
In doing so, I realize how incredibly important are the most basic principles involved in living a good life: Personal honor, the ability to empathize and sympathize with other human beings, the ability to love, and the responsibility that comes with loving, and being loved, the importance of avoiding the Herd mentality, the importance of possessing courage in one's life, and that human beings were born with a conscience for a reason.
It is my duty, as a grandparent to reinforce the important teachings of my Grands' parents, not in words, but in practice. It is my duty to prove an example of what it really means to age, wiping from my Grands' minds the media inspired unreal image of older people. Images inspired by the ridiculous notion of older folks as grasping frantically after their vanished youth, or the equally distasteful image of the sour faced individual, for whom life no longer holds any pleasure, I tirelessly work to dispel.
Love and Duty walk hand in hand.
In Touch With Jeannine
Proud to be a Grams!
Hello to all the new kids on the Grandparenting Block, and those who have lived on it for awhile!
I'm the proud Grams of a Terrific Trio of Grands, ages 16, 10, and 9. Two Grandsons, and one Granddaughter. They are precious to me!
Looking forward to participating in this group, with Boomers who actually don't mind being referred to as 'Grams' or 'Gramps'. I've met so many who avoid the whole Grandparenting experience!
Oh, what they are missing!
My youngest Grand,
my one and only Granddaughter,
Miss Julianne
Julianne's Song
She's a Little Bit of Honey,
Fallen from the Honey-Tree.
Just a little bit of lovin',
Made especially for me.
She's more rare than any Treasure,
She's made my life so Heavenly.
She's my Little Bit of Honey,
She's my Darlin' girl, Ju-lee.
---Jeannine Schenewerk-Grams
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I'm the proud Grams of a Terrific Trio of Grands, ages 16, 10, and 9. Two Grandsons, and one Granddaughter. They are precious to me!
Looking forward to participating in this group, with Boomers who actually don't mind being referred to as 'Grams' or 'Gramps'. I've met so many who avoid the whole Grandparenting experience!
Oh, what they are missing!
My youngest Grand,
my one and only Granddaughter,
Miss Julianne
Julianne's Song
She's a Little Bit of Honey,
Fallen from the Honey-Tree.
Just a little bit of lovin',
Made especially for me.
She's more rare than any Treasure,
She's made my life so Heavenly.
She's my Little Bit of Honey,
She's my Darlin' girl, Ju-lee.
---Jeannine Schenewerk-Grams
In Touch With Jeannine
Halloween Fun for the Grands!
I always enjoy discovering child-safe internet activities for my youngest Grands. In honor of Halloween, I'm offering a couple of sites your Grands might enjoy:Halloween Games and Activites at the Kidz Page
Halloween games online, pictures to color online, pictures to print-out and color, and jigsaw puzzles.
Free Halloween Paperdolls and Outfits
My Granddaughter and I love the online paperdoll pages! The above link takes you to a page where you can print-out the dolls and a number of Halloween costumes for them, to color. Or, you can 'paint' your dolls and outfits online, then print them out. Great fun for our Granddaughters.
In Touch With Jeannine
On Grandchildren
Eldest Grand Steve, age 16
Never did I think I could possibly love any other human beings as much as I love my own children. Never, that is, until my first grandchild was born. From the moment my grandson was placed in my arms, he was loved, completely, by me. And I was in total wonder, at the depth of feeling that tiny newborn roused within my heart.
Exactly the same, was my experience, with the birth of each of my grandchildren. Three times I have had an instant, intense, emotional bond form with the birth of the 'Blood of my blood, flesh of my flesh'.
Have these human beings' births brought about within me, some mystical hint at the continuation of my own life, in some manner, the which I've yet been able to perfectly define? Could this be the reason for such instantaneous, unconditional love? Perhaps. It is certain, when I look upon each of my grandchildren, I take exceptional pride in the fact I played a part in their 'being'.
As well, I, as a Grandmother, have played a part in influencing their personal development in more ways than I knew, or could have imagined. I have, in effect, had an important impact on their lives, without conscious realization of the fact. I have merely loved them, and have felt fortunate to share my time, my caring, my 'self', with them.
One of the first inklings I had, of how my grandchildren viewed me, was brought home to me by my eldest grandson. At the age of nine, he completed a certain school project. This project was a simple collage, all about him. As part of the project, his picture was taken, standing before his collage. I was presented with this picture, by my daughter, who told me she had been certain I would want the honor of possession.
I recall the first time I viewed the snapshot, she immediately drew my attention to an area of the collage, just over my grandson's right shoulder. There, plainly in view, were words printed on a cutout of construction paper. The words read,
'A Person I Most Admire'
My Grandma, Grams Schenewerk
No other accolade, no other life achievement, could ever touch me so deeply, or reward me more fully, as that singular title bestowed upon me by my grandson.
---Jeannine Schenewerk
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