Here at Multigenerational Life we talk a lot about cooperation between generations and tools to make that cooperation part of every day life. We like to pass on lessons learned by others who have entered or reentered the the multigenerational living lifestyle. But we also recognize that a lot of the examples, stories and research..Read the rest…

A great new resource has just become available (June 2010) with the publication of Under One Roof Again: All Grown Up and (Re)Learning to Live Together Happily. The topic, of course, is the multigenerational household where parents and adult children are coming together again after a period of living separately.
Now how would you approach writing..Read the rest…

Periodically we want to explore what the researchers and academics in university research have to say about multigenerational living. Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology are certainly interested in many of the same issues we talk about here every day. So we have asked our “academic connection” The Professor to give us some insight into current research..Read the rest…

Ask anyone over fifty and they will tell you the first time they felt dismissed. Ask any teenager and they will tell you about more than one time when they heard: “You’ll understand when you’re older.”
The fact of the matter is that when it comes to age, nearly all of us are bigots! We dismiss..Read the rest…

We were reading an article about mistrust between generations. The piece was in an academic journal and sounded both authoritative and well… not quite right. So we asked some of our multigenerational family members about it and got a lot of definite “No” answers. While their family experiences included disagreements and different political or religious..Read the rest…

The full title is: — Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and A Journey Into Alzheimer’s. I understand if you would rather not read it, but you will be missing a real jewel.
This is the memoir of Andrea Gillies, she took it upon herself to move to with her husband, three children and his aging..Read the rest…

Read this opening to a recent newspaper article:
With the abysmal state of the American economy, more families are living together driven by job loss, which has seen children flocking back home.
Now describe what you think will be the overall tone of the article and what its conclusions might be. Read the opening one more time.
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Rule #1 about vacation discounts — You have to ask! There are discounts for kids, senior discounts and most importantly for the biggest savings — Family Pass discounts. Nearly every big time tourist/vacation attraction has a group discount for families. And nearly all of them mean “family” in the broadest sense — mom, dad, kids,..Read the rest…

Two fathers want to get their kids (one boy, one girl) together but they fear the kids will catch on to their plan and do the opposite. So the fathers, who are also neighbors, plan a feud as a bit of reverse psychology to get the kids together. After all, if the dads don’t like..Read the rest…

Google the term “Intergenerational School” and you are going to get a lot of hits for The Intergenerational School in Cleveland, Ohio. And for a number of really good reasons. Here is how they describe their educational model.
TIS is a free public charter school. Our educational model was born from the desire to create a..Read the rest…