My mother once told me that the first time she held my daughter, she felt something she hadn’t expected—not just the joy everyone talks about, but a kind of ache. A tenderness that went backward, ...

Influential grandparents share a set of habits that have everything to do with how they make a child feel when they're ...

Many grandparents are deviating from the traditional grandparent role: Some are now full-time caregivers, or delaying retirement to support grandkids.

Sept. 7 is National Grandparents Day. NPR readers shared the joys of becoming grandparents and offered some sage advice. Are you a grandparent-to-be? Here's some advice from those who came before you ...

If your grandparent was born in one of these months, you’re lucky!

The helicopter parents of the 1990s and early 2000s are now becoming grandparents. But for some, they've kept their "helicopter" moniker. "Mom, those are my kids. You're 'grandma' now. Remember?" That ...

Becoming a grandparent is a much anticipated, even revered experience. My parents were grandparents by their mid-forties; my oldest niece, now in her fifties, speaks lovingly of her memory of ...

Kathy L. is a 46-year-old mother of three in North Carolina. Five years ago, she moved her family back to her hometown in order to help care for her aging parents, but for the past year and a half, ...

Mothers and Fathers have special days in May and June, but not many people know that the Sunday after Labor Day is dedicated to honoring grandparents. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed a ...