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 I'm a great grandparent, and I hope I can make a difference with my posterity! Deliberate, Purposeful, Difference-Making Grandparenting By  Richard and Linda Eyre  · August 10, 2022 Publisher’s Note: Meridian is pleased to partner with the Eyres in furnishing Grandparents with insights, ideas, and methods to help us all be more proactive and effective in this eternally important role of helping the wonderful grandkids who are our legacy.  The Eyres have taken their Meridian Grandparenting articles and added to them to create a Grandparenting course composed of 6 Zoom Seminars and emailed materials.  It starts in September and you can enroll at  www.Grandparenting101.com .  Author’s note: We appreciate Scot and Maurine Proctor (very experienced grandparents themselves) for making Meridian Magazine our partner in what we hope will become a Grandparenting Movement—something the world needs right now! GRANDparent:  What a Title, What a Role! The term...

This is my traditional Valentine's Day post! Happy Valentine's Day!  I first posted this in 2014.  Since then, we have had various other family members become married!  So I'm adding pictures to the post I sent in 2014! To begin, this little Valentine flower light pictured below  --  is at this time sitting on the top of a cabinet in my room here in West Bountiful, February 14, 2022, where I live today.  I have several grandchildren and two of my children, who also have married since I write this article in 2014.   Last February 14th both my son Wayne and I had Covid, and I almost died, I am told!  I had a right hip replacement on February 8th, and then 2 days later, by accident was exposed to Covid! My husband Wayne passed away on February 21, 2016, a week after Valentine's Day that year, almost 6 years ago. Written in 2014:   The little tradition involves something Wayne found years ago, and between special days, it has a spot in our s...

This article reminds us of what a great example we always are, whether we want to be or not! 4 Important Things Your Children Need to Hear (by Scott Groza) Posted by  Karen - Hey Sigmund A photo taken many years ago of some of our children, and their cousins! As parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and teachers, there is no more important of a job than raising the kids in our lives into successful adults. It would seem as if they are like little sponges, soaking up every bit of the environment around them. They will even pick up on things you didn’t realize they know about.   Being an amazing role model can often be difficult at times. How we react during times of stress, like those times in a fit of road rage or when we accidentally drop something on our foot, is how they will often react to those things too. Sometimes, we’re not exactly sure what to say or how to discipline. It’s not just our actions they take to heart, but how we talk to...

                       Another keeper!  How I love being the "old tree"!   Being the “Link” Between Your Grandchildren and their Ancestors By Richard and Linda Eyre  · December 27, 2016 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Editor’s note: This is the third article in a three part series on “Mormon Grandparenting”. The first two articles can be  read  here .  Because of the popularity of the series the Eyres may continue it and write additional installments. If you would like to see that happen, hit the “comment” button and express your feelings. Our Experience On the wall of our vacation home, where we gather our family from far and wide each summer, is a very large oil painting (a product of some art classes I (Linda) took once. It is a large tree with lots of branches and lots of roots. It is painted so that there is an abo...

The photo below has a group of our grandchildren in our family room, about 15 years ago!  Seven of them are married now! Grandkids are the Greatest, and We Can be their Champions By Richard and Linda Eyre  · December 18, 2016 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Editor’s note: This is the second article in a three part series on “Mormon Grandparenting”. The first article  can be read  here , and the third and final article will appear in this space in one week. The fact is that we can and should play a powerful role in teaching our grandchildren to live for responsibility and reputation rather than ease and entitlement…our family, and the legacy we leave, will not be measured by how rich we are or how many titles we had but by the family we started and the caliber of those family members. One of the worst and saddest things we can do is abdicate our role as grandparents, becoming passive and uninvolved ...