Camp Grandma

Camp Grandma reveals how a successful businesswoman merged her working career with her role as grandmother—and offers grandparents fun and creative ideas for enriching their relationships with their grandchildren while teaching them valuable life skills that will help them grow strong and think critically. Babysitting? Not exactly.

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Warm cookies and milk are still okay, but what if they came with a workshop on goal setting or writing a business plan for the school year? Camp Grandma is full of innovative ideas that Marianne Waggoner Day, a highly successful businesswoman who became a committed and dedicated grandmother, modified from her working life in an effort to connect with her grandchildren. Along the way, she realized that in teaching her grandchildren, she in turn was learning some unexpected and invaluable lessons from them. Here, Day offers a new and refreshing perspective on grandparenting. Readers will be introduced to a compelling, sometimes humorous, and totally unexpected twist on a role people often take for granted - as well as enter into the larger societal conversation we should be having about the possibilities and value of grandparenting and how the women's movement has reinvigorated and reshaped women's approach to being grandmothers. Full of ideas and creative ways for grandparents to help their grandchildren grow strong, think critically, and have fun all at the same time, Camp Grandma reveals the importance of grandparenting and the value of passing on traditions, knowledge, and wisdom to the new generation. Babysitter? Not even close.