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Bill Abler soaks up the moments with his grandchildren--literally. He loves to fish off the banks of quiet Forest Lake with his two oldest grandkids, both of whom live within 30 miles of his home in Circle Pines, Minn. But Abler admits that with so many grandchildren--six in all--sometimes the littlest in the pack get short shrift, especially Sadie, 7. "When I go visit her and her brother, she says hi and then runs off to play," Abler, 59, says. "I've always wanted to be closer, but I really wasn't sure how since I never...
...help assuage the difficulty, Dr. Arthur Kornhaber, a family psychiatrist, opened the "granddaddy" of intergenerational camps, Grandparents' and Grandchildren's Camp, in 1986, held at Great Camp Sagamore at Raquette Lake, N.Y. Kornhaber had studied the grandparent role since 1970, and he discovered certain concerns of the older generation--namely, how can grandparents play an important role in their grandchild's life when they live far away...
Some of the programs also provide a support-group function. At Grandparents' and Grandchildren's Camp in New York and at Grandkids and Me camp in Wisconsin, for example, counselors facilitate daily gab sessions in which grandparents discuss an array of issues while the kids pursue other activities. "I've heard so many grandparents say how much they learned from others about discipline and ways to be in touch," says Don Schmitz, founder of Grandkids and Me and a grandfather of four. The topics range from coping with aging to finding ways to get the most out of retirement...
...seems that nothing is more powerful than the buying reflex of a grandparent. Jan Burton, 52, has two grandchildren, Grace, 2, and James, 6 weeks. "My heart just glows when I see them wearing something so cute," says Burton. Her last impulse buy for her granddaughter was a $50 bathing suit patterned like a strawberry, with fake leaves sprouting from the shoulders. No doubt Grace will outgrow it before next summer, but you don't want to get in the way of a grandparent intent on grabbing. --With reporting by Amy Bonesteel/Atlanta and Esther Chapman/Omaha
...goddam bad that you're rotting away." The brilliant schoolgirl, intoxicated by life's promise and challenge, had become a sere biddy. The famous voice, now as cutting and quivery as sheet metal, might have sounded scolding to a grandchild. But Hepburn had no grandchildren, no children, no Spence. She was alone...