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Share with your grandchild the exciting, emotional, amusing, embarrassing, and interesting moments of your life with the "story of you." Andy and Susan Hilford
For the fifteen million grandmothers who are keepers of family history and memories, The Grandmother Book is a lively and timely way to record your story for future generations.
* Andy and Susan Hilford present the perfect way for grandmothers of all ages to pass along a grandmother's story. The story is one that recounts coming-of-age moments, life-changing events, a look back at what was, family anecdotes and historical insight. With thoughtful, surprising, at times unexpected, and provocative questions, this book is directed to the new generation of baby boomer grandmothers. From early memories of her childhood, to the time she began her own family, to the present as she watches her family continue to grow, this valuable, prompted keepsake ensures that the thoughts, moments, events, images, and ideas that shaped her life are collected in her voice and in her hand for a precious audience.
* This grandmother's book of memories includes spaces for special photographs, report cards, family tree, and other cherished memorabilia and keepsakes, along with thoughtful, amusing, memory-nudging prompts to kick-start grandmother's storytelling
* A perfect gift on Grandparent's Day, Mother's Day, wedding anniversaries, and birthdays, the book's hardcover binding and decorative four color art ensure its status as a written family treasure for generations to come.
Andy Hilford is a psychologist and researcher who specializes in the study of memory. Susan Hilford is a physical therapist who has worked with adult and pediatric patients and is currently enjoying raising their children full-time. The couple lives in New York, NY.
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September 13, 2009: A great book for grandmothers to reflect on their life, and in the furture a great book for grandchildren to learn about their grandmother. I wish my grandmother would have had a book like this! My mother and mother-in law loved their book, but they loved the fact that they were going to be grandmother more!
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June 28, 2009: Your parents may be young to believe themselves grandparents that need to record their lives, but getting memories on paper is always a worthwhile event. I gave this book to both grandmothers of my 3-month-old for a Mother's Day gift, and both have looked at their "homework" as a wonderful task.
Only downfall is that some sections seem to apply to things more in our lifetimes than our parents (college graduation, jobs outside the home, etc.), but the introduction recommends only filling in what's applicable, striking through things and writing in new, and otherwise making the book your own.