Grandparents Raising Their Grandchildren Family by yun Chen https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8 Ling Victoria en-us 2019-11-12 02:22:01 UTC 2026-01-20 00:06:00 UTC hello@padlet.com ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409756668 2019-11-12 02:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409756668 ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409757072 2019-11-12 02:26:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409757072 Health issues: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409757570 Some grandparents might have limit energy and physical health problems to raise their grandchildren. To raise their grandchildren, some grandparents might become the workforce and re-enter the workplace.]]> 2019-11-12 02:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409757570 Emotional issues: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409757628 Some grandparents may start their role grieving the actual or emotional death of their children. They have feelings of failure, guilt, and embarrassment.]]> 2019-11-12 02:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409757628 Finance issues: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409759447 For some retired grandparents, as they do not have enough pension or money, they need to re-enter the workplace to support grandchildren’s living.]]> 2019-11-12 02:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409759447 Social issues: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409759577 Grandparents spend more time to look after their grandchildren that reduce their time to socialize with their friends and partners.

]]> 2019-11-12 02:37:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409759577 Custody/guardianship issues: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409760015 Grandparents may feel they have physical custody of the child but not legal custody. Gaining legal custody or guardianship can be a costly process and requires the termination of the rights from grandparents to parents.

If you have some interests to learn more about the custody and guardianship, please visit this website: https://www.parentsupportbc.ca/grandparents-raising-grandchildren/ 

]]> 2019-11-12 02:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409760015 ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409761059 2019-11-12 02:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409761059 Open grandparents’ involvement program: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409761272 Active grandparents can share their experiences and techniques of raising grandchildren.]]> 2019-11-12 02:44:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409761272 ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409761984 2019-11-12 02:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409761984 Why grandparents raise their grandchildren? ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409762416 1. A parent’s drug or alcohol abuse
2. A parent dies
3. Child abuse
4. A parent has a serious or terminal illness
5. A parent has been incarcerated
6. A parent is experiencing mental illness
7. Parental unemployment
8. Divorce or desertion has changed the family
    
 
]]> 2019-11-12 02:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409762416 Family Description ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409763027 "Grandparents Raising their Grandchildren family is  one in which a child lives with one or both grandparents without the presence of  a parent or middle generation" ( Wilson, 2013, p.345).]]> 2019-11-12 02:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409763027 Challenges of this type of family ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409764592 2019-11-12 03:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409764592 A purpose for living: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409766455 When grandparents provide care to grandchildren, they refill the meaning of life.]]> 2019-11-12 03:09:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409766455 Psychological changing: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409766957 To raise grandchildren can keep them young, active and “in shape”.                                ]]> 2019-11-12 03:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409766957 Social and emotional changing: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409767152 Grandparents can build new social net-works and experience emotional self-fulfillment in being able to support the positive development of young generation.                       ]]> 2019-11-12 03:13:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409767152 Cultural and identity delivery: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409767375 Grandparents can pass down family cultures and traditions to their grandchildren. Children enhance their awareness of identity that they are members of this family.  ]]> 2019-11-12 03:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409767375 Tips for educators to cope with this type of family ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409767541 2019-11-12 03:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409767541 Apply activities that involve the information of grandparents raise their grandchildren: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409768551 Educators can read books about grand parenting. ]]> 2019-11-12 03:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409768551 Documentations for families: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409768605 Use children’s learning portfolio as a communication tool for children’s caregivers and biological parents. ]]> 2019-11-12 03:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409768605 Grandparents Day celebration: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409768721 Educators can organize family events on Grandparents Day (the second Sunday in September). ]]> 2019-11-12 03:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409768721 Family visiting: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409770470 By visiting children's family, educators can know about grandparents’ techniques and struggles in raising their grandchildren. Educators can reflect to adjust their educational strategies for fostering children’s social skills.]]> 2019-11-12 03:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409770470 Hold Family events: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409770554 Educators can invite families to attend events,  such as  potluck and movie night. Those events can provide opportunities for new families to know each other.]]> 2019-11-12 03:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409770554 References: ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409770834 Wilson, L. (2013). Partnerships: Families and Communities in Early Childhood. Toronto: Nelson Education.

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. (2019). American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren. Retrieved from https://www.aamft.org/Consumer_Updates/grandparents.aspx

Fuller-Thomson, E. (2005). Grandparents Raising Grandchildren in Canada:
A Profile of Skipped Generation Families (Working paper No. 132).Hamilton, Ontario: SEDAP, McMaster University.
Grandparents raising their grandchildren.  (2014).
Retrieved from:https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/81260/1/Fuller-Thomson%20grandparents%20raising%20grandchildren%20in%20canada.pdf

]]> 2019-11-12 03:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409770834 Benefits of this type of family ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409771295 2019-11-12 03:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409771295 Statistics of this type of family in Canada ling103207290 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409772713  Statistics Canada (2003) data indicate that between 1991 and 2001 there was a 20% increase in the number of children under 18 years old who were living with their grandparents with no parents present in the household. This household structure is defined as a “skipped generation” (Statistics of Canada, 2003).


]]> 2019-11-12 03:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409772713 Supportive documents hliu42447 https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409787061 1. https://www.helpguide.org/articles/parenting-family/grandparents-raising-grandchildren.htm

2.https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evidence-based-living/201709/when-grandparents-raise-their-grandchildren

3.https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publications/home-farm/when-grandparents-become-parents-to-their-grandchildren

4.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181102083452.htm

5. https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2012CFD0004-000091
6.https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/grandparents.pdf]]> 2019-11-12 05:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ling103207290/f53kyeir1ze8/wish/409787061