Keeping Your Grandkids Alive till Their Ungrateful Parents Arrive: The Guide for Fun-Loving Granddads

Written from a grandfather's point of view it's an irreverent and insightful guide to embracing the joys of grandparenthood. 

Grandma Online 

A humorous reference guide of over six hundred Web sites and personal stories related to the joys and concerns of grandmothers. Ms. Shaputis brings you listings for the best Web sites on cooking, investing, health, crafts, genealogy, and of course, online shopping. "Grandma Online" is perfect for all generations to keep by the computer.  

The Don't Sweat Guide for Grandparents  

Being a grandparent isn't what it used to be: today's adult children and grandchildren are living more rushed, full-to-the-brim lives, and it's often difficult for grandparents to figure out how to fit into such hectic schedules. In addition, many grandparents help out with child care, and may have mixed feelings about it, or simply need some advice on today's kids.

With easy-to-implement, yet deeply impactful suggestions, this guide will enable you to have a closer and more joyful relationship with that special grandchild. 

When Kathryn and Allan Zullo learned they were going to be grandparents, they were thrilled. The next emotion the two fortysomethings felt was panic. "What do we really know about being grandparents?" they thought. "We're nothing like our gray-haired grandmas and grandpas." 

To answer their questions - and those of a new generation of grandparents - they created The Nanas and the Papas. They went to leading experts in child care and grandparenting, including T. Berry Brazelton, Arthur Kornhaber, and Perry Buffington, all of whom generously shared their views on the issues confronting boomer grandparents. Then they talked to other boomer nanas and papas, from friends next door to Internet acquaintances across the country. 

The result is a book full of good sense for dealing with today's adult children and blended families, plugging in to high-tech grandparenting, making the most of time alone with the grandchildren, and sharing financial assets. 

Grandparenting: A Survival Guide: How Better to Understand Yourself, Your Children, and Your Children's Children

Being a grandparent can be demanding.  This is a great book for first-time grandparents, as well as those who already have grandchildren. 

It is perfect for parents and grandparents alike.  The book covers everything from pregnancy to finance.  It is loaded with valuable information, and it's graphics make it a fun and easy read.

Books To Stay Healthy Grandparents

Strength Training for Women (DK Publishing) Help mom stay in shape with this great book! There is no denying that if you strengthen your body it will help you fight osteoporosis and defy the aging process.  This book shows you the type of exercises that will help boost your metabolism, shape up and get strong!  The book has great step-by-step instructions with pictures and there's a great section called "Anatomy of an Exercise" that shows the body, all the muscle groups and the pages that you go to to work on those sections. $15.00

Nutrition For Life (DK Publishing) With all these crazy diets around from low-carbohydrate to high protein, no sugar to the grapefruit diet - how is a person to choose?  Why not consider a healthy way of living by making smart dietary and lifestyle choices?  This book shows you how to balance nutrition and exercise, to analyze your life to make the right decisions.  It is so comprehensive that it actually eliminates the need for any of the other "diet" related books.  It analyzes all the diets that are out there and makes it so simple that you can compare ones you have tried in the past or were contemplating.  There are great case studies and chapters like "feeling good into old age" and "the need for fluids."  It's so user friendly it is sure to become a favorite reference book whenever you need to get your diet in check.