Tomorrow – September 12th – is Grandparents Day.
Whether they are in the next room, around the corner or across the country, be sure to wish your grandparents all the best.
The impetus for a National Grandparents Day originated with Marian McQuade, a housewife in Fayette County, West Virginia. Her primary motivation was to champion the cause of..Read the rest…

A good friend of ours was frustrated that she and her daughter seemed to agree on absolutely nothing. Not clothes, food, who she should date, if she should date, movies, art and in particular what are appropriate rules for a 13 yr. old girl.
Fortunately for our friend, she lives in a multigenerational situation with her..Read the rest…

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before  – a grandmother is talking about her grandchildren, how she loves to spend time with them, how they are the light of her life. Then she adds with a smile: “And anytime I want, I can go home and leave them to their mother.”
The modern grandma —..Read the rest…

Noise is a potential problem when you add a second person to a living arrangement. The issue can get bigger when you add a second and a third generation to the house. Most multigenerational homes discover they need some rules about noise in the house. The biggest contributor to most audio problems is the television..Read the rest…

The Harris survey group does an annual “Happiness Poll” which seeks to measure how happy be are as individuals. Over the years some interesting trends have developed, most notably for the generations is that the older we get the happier we seem to be.
In the most recent survey the “younger” generation that being 18-24 yr...Read the rest…

A recently released study from the UK asks some rather interesting questions about intergenerational programs. Most prominently the idea was to discover if such cooperative programs worked and where they did, were there some keys to that success.
While the results may not be startling they do give us some ideas when we consider participating in..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…

We talk a lot about family vacations and we offer suggestions about family discounts and vacations sites that cater to the multigenerational family. But we also need to consider that if you are already living in a multigenerational home, then perhaps your vacation might be a vacation from work, from responsibilities, from work schedules and..Read the rest…

We know there is an upward trend in the number of multigenerational households world wide or at least in the western industrialized nations. We have census numbers that back that up. But some real questions arise as to the historical roots of that “trend.”
Just how many multigenerational households were there 60, 80 or 100 years..Read the rest…

On the first day of every month we like to invite you to participate in here on Multigenerational Living.
You will notice several posts by “guest”, those are all submissions from readers like you. If you would like to offer up your thoughts please just use the contact button and send along your ideas. Don’t worry..Read the rest…