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How to Really Love Your Grandchild...in an Ever-Changing World
Grandparents and their grandchildren have always had a special bond, but living in a culture that has lost its moral compass, many parents are at a loss as to how to raise a child with moral values and a sense of decency, finding the adolescent years especially difficult. Within this vacuum, grandparents are becoming increasingly involved, and important, in providing the needed stability for their grandchildren. However, the culture in which grandparents find themselves is radically different from the one in which they were raised. In How to Really Love Your Grandchildren, Dr. D. Ross Campbell offers invaluable help and encouragement for all grandparents as they attempt to counter the unhealthy influences of our day and help provide direction and influence for their grandchildren. Topics covered helping your children in parenting, distance grandparenting, parenting grandkids, training children in anger management, making a critical difference in the area of discipl
234 pages, Hardcover
First published June 28, 2008
About the author
D. Ross Campbell
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Dr. Campbell is a former Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He has counseled thousands of parents over three decades of practice. Having retired from active counseling, he focuses today on writing and lecturing on parenting topics for an ever-changing cultural world with its challenges for the modern family.
Dr. Campbell's book, How To Really Love Your Teenager won the Gold Medallion Award. Other books include How to Really Love Your Child and Helping Your Twenty-Something Get A Life And Get It Now. Dr. Campbell has also written extensively on dealing with anger in children. In collaboration with Dr. Gary Chapman, he authored the bestselling Five Love Languages of Children.
Dr. Campbell and his wife, Ann, live in Signal Mountain, TN - they have 7 adult children and 15 grandchildren.
Dr. Campbell is a former Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine. He has counseled thousands of parents over three decades of practice. Having retired from active counseling, he focuses today on writing and lecturing on parenting topics for an ever-changing cultural world with its challenges for the modern family.
Dr. Campbell's book, How To Really Love Your Teenager won the Gold Medallion Award. Other books include How to Really Love Your Child and Helping Your Twenty-Something Get A Life And Get It Now. Dr. Campbell has also written extensively on dealing with anger in children. In collaboration with Dr. Gary Chapman, he authored the bestselling Five Love Languages of Children.
Dr. Campbell and his wife, Ann, live in Signal Mountain, TN - they have 7 adult children and 15 grandchildren.
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October 16, 2008
As grandparents, our only job is to love and enjoy these wonderful little creatures. Loving our grandchildren is easy. It’s the most amazing experience in the world.
Still, grandparenting in today’s modern world does provide a few challenges. Your life might have been quite different from your parents and grandparents. For the most part, our own parents and grandparents lived in a child-friendly, family oriented society. Television shows and movies were geared towards family entertainment. Communities were designed for raising children. No one thought twice about disciplining a wayward child, even if that child wasn’t yours.
Obviously, this has changed. We may not have raised our own children in the “malt-shop era”. However, our own values are still based upon these generalized views which continued into the 80’s. Therefore, we have to be extremely careful about judgmental reactions as they won’t help our grandchildren.
How to Really Love Your Grandchild is a wonderful resource to help grandparents through these and other issues. Being a young grandmother, I never realized how different my grandson’s world will be compared to my own childhood. Perhaps that just makes my role as grandmother that much more important.
Still, grandparenting in today’s modern world does provide a few challenges. Your life might have been quite different from your parents and grandparents. For the most part, our own parents and grandparents lived in a child-friendly, family oriented society. Television shows and movies were geared towards family entertainment. Communities were designed for raising children. No one thought twice about disciplining a wayward child, even if that child wasn’t yours.
Obviously, this has changed. We may not have raised our own children in the “malt-shop era”. However, our own values are still based upon these generalized views which continued into the 80’s. Therefore, we have to be extremely careful about judgmental reactions as they won’t help our grandchildren.
How to Really Love Your Grandchild is a wonderful resource to help grandparents through these and other issues. Being a young grandmother, I never realized how different my grandson’s world will be compared to my own childhood. Perhaps that just makes my role as grandmother that much more important.
June 17, 2015
It was interesting and helpful.
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