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...their impact on jobs. Guthrie's public-power Democrats--liberals of long ago--created a status quo of irrigation and hydropower that today's conservative east-of-the-Cascades is desperately trying to maintain. Deference to salmon or spotted owl, says the east, takes opportunity away from the grandchildren of the kids Guthrie worried about...
Road trips, with plenty of time in the car together, also give baby boomers the chance to strengthen and renew relationships with siblings, spouses, kids and grandchildren. "These vacations are a real family affair," says Michael Veeck of Charleston, S.C., who is a co-owner of six minor league teams and a consultant to the Detroit Tigers. He is anticipating a 50% rise this season over last year in the number of people 50 or older taking road trips to the minor league parks...
...tone and persuaded her to let him read all future contracts first. Throughout, her family has respected her independence, she says. She lets Slocum review her checking account, but not without some discomfort. They are worried about her fixed income, and she wants to buy birthday presents for her grandchildren and great-grands. "I half-listen," she says, "and I do pretty much what I want...
...their courtship. "Soon after Annie and I became engaged, a psychologist we met at a party told us we were the worst imaginable marital risk," Kaplan recalls. The therapeutic view proved wrong again: Bernays and Kaplan have been married 47 years, and they have three children and six grandchildren. Every day the two go off to their individual offices in their Dutch colonial home to work on their next books. It's just life on Professors...
GRANDPARENT SPLITS According to a study at Pennsylvania State University, when grandparents divorce, their relationships with grandchildren often suffer. Grandparents who go through a divorce, particularly grandfathers, have less contact with their grandkids, feel less close to them and consider grandparenting less important in their lives than those who stayed married...