According to staff reports on this Monday morning there are two new multigenerational pieces of entertainment that have passed the collective Monday morning water cooler test.
On the motion picture front You Again got very good reviews from our staff. The film is carried by veteran actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver. The cast involves..Read the rest…

“There aren’t enough television shows about real families.”
We agree, but we also acknowledge that shows about “real” anything can be really boring. Reality shows are edited and the participants are manipulated by directors, editors and yes, even writers. But we wondered just how many multigenerational families are portrayed realistically or otherwise on television. Here is..Read the rest…

I’m a grandfather and I love books. So naturally I want my grandkids to love them too. So as soon as they were old enough to read or be read to, my gifts to them were always books.
Now that went OK with my first grandson, we lived close and I often would babysit and I..Read the rest…

Do you remember Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? Clearly one of the great intergenerational novels. Now we have Bill Warrington’s Last Chance. The setting and story are not remarkable but author James Kings as managed to play the cast of generational characters in ways that are both familiar and yet both plausible and..Read the rest…

This is a wonderful website that chronicles the paths of three generations of Egyptian women. Their video interviews, family histories and intimate commentary on just how the role of woman has changed in contemporary Egypt are widely different yet similar and educational. But the conversation has much wider implications than simply the nation of Egypt.
From..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…

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…

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…

We couldn’t say it much better than they do on the Gaia foundation website, so here is what they say about their programs in intergenerational learning.
“Inter-generational Learning is founded on the understanding that it is vitally important for societies to ensure that the ecological knowledge and practices accumulated over generations is passed on through experience..Read the rest…

I was asking some friends (with kids) about multigenerational entertainment. One of them made a compelling case for Toy Story 3 as a multi-layered multigenerational film. I was transcribing into my trusty notebook as fast as I could. Here is approximately what he said:
First of all the storyline is about the lead human character growing..Read the rest…