Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arthur Kornhaber. The bond between grandchild and grandparent is second only to the attachment between parent and child. Kornhaber calls it "clear love" because it has no strings attached. "There's always some conditional element to parents' love. Grandparents are just glad to have you, and the child can feel that...
...enemy, they must be won over, for they are the gatekeepers who regulate grandparents' access to their grandchildren. According to researchers, the better the relationship between parent and grandparent, the greater the contact and closeness between grandparent and grandchild. "It's up to the parents to make the grandparents feel welcome and to send the message to their children that they're really integral," says Sally Newman, executive director of Generations Together at the University of Pittsburgh. "The parents should encourage frequent visits and not make the grandparents feel intrusive." And spending time together is essential, says Yaffa Schlesinger...
...kids to "M&Ms"--movies and malls. David does something a little more adventurous. For the past 10 summers, he has gone to camp with one--sometimes two--of his grandchildren. "The food is terrible, the beds are bad, there are no televisions or radios, but, man, you just feel good!" Stearman says. The weeklong Grandparent-Grandchild Summer Camp, founded by Arthur Kornhaber, in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, is one of many intergenerational programs launched in recent years. Elderhostel, which organizes learning vacations for seniors, has seen the adult enrollment in its intergenerational programs in the U.S. shoot...
...FEAR The evergreen fashion conundrum: Will it be passe before you pay for it? Last year's shoulder-hugging shrug is as good as donated. This season the cape is back, but not as we knew it: ponchoesque, snug, midriff baring (perfect for that elusive frozen-tummy, toasty-collarbone feel). There's even a summer cape. Trade it in for a new shrug come next year...
...Jesse was determined to become a guinea pig. "It made him feel good as a person," says his father Paul. "He said, 'Hey, this may be good for me, and I'll be helping newborn infants.' You know teenagers. They think they're going to live forever...