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…

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…

If you are already in a multigenerational living situation then Together Again: A Creative Guide to Successful Multigenerational Living is almost a must read. There really is a basketful of useful information here, almost as much as you can get from reading our site!
Our only criticism and it is a very small one is that..Read the rest…

“She is the glue that holds the family together; the keeper of cultural and culinary tradition; the source of all things delicious, pungent, salty, and satisfying.”
This is how cookbook author Pat Tanumihardja describes the vital role of the Asian grandmother. While Asians make up the growing number of multi-generational households in the U.S., other Asian..Read the rest…

Generators: 20 Activities to Recharge Your Intergenerational Group (2005) is a book worth looking at and on Amazon you can do a lot of looking inside this one (you can preview more than half the book).
Short but full of ideas

The Millennial Generation includes those born between 1982 and 2002. This means that Millenials are between 8 and 28 as I write this, quite a diverse group of people one would think. What Millennials Rising (2000) does is put into perspective what growing up was like for those in this generation and how those circumstances..Read the rest…

Some roles in life we take on without giving a thought to training or even whether we are able to complete the task. Perhaps this is because we somehow feel that anyone (everyone?) should be able to “be a good parent” or ” be able to provide care to a father, mother, child or grandparent.”..Read the rest…

If you have never picked up one of the hundreds of books in the Complete Idiot’s Guide series, we recommend you do. Despite the off-putting series title (mom would never read them because “I am not an idiot!”), they are jammed packed with good information and not a lot of fluff. There are two titles..Read the rest…