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    The Complete Guide to Practically Perfect Grandparenting: Stories, Nursery Rhymes, Recipes, Games, Crafts and More
    The Complete Guide to Practically Perfect Grandparenting: Stories, Nursery Rhymes, Recipes, Games, Crafts and More
    The Complete Guide to Practically Perfect Grandparenting: Stories, Nursery Rhymes, Recipes, Games, Crafts and More
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    The Complete Guide to Practically Perfect Grandparenting: Stories, Nursery Rhymes, Recipes, Games, Crafts and More

    By Abigail Gehring and Martha M. Gehring

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    Stories, Nursery Rhymes, Recipes, Games, Crafts, and More
    A beautiful, keepsake book packed with everything you need to be a terrific grandparent!
    Beautifully illustrated and chock full of everything you need to be a great grandparent, The Complete Guide to Practically Perfect Grandparenting is the perfect gift for new grandpas and grandmas. In these pages you’ll find classic stories and poems such as Peter Rabbit” and The Princess and the Pea,” tasty recipes sure to please young taste buds, and crafts that will entertain any child on a rainy day. Some favorites from the book include:

    Grandma’s recipes for amazing mac n cheese and hot chocolate with homemade marshmallows.

    Fun crafts like sand jars, sock puppets, and pinecone birds.

    Beautifully illustrated tale of The Ugly Ducking and Little Jack Horner.

    The hilarious game of bobbing for apples and how to host the best tea parties.

    And much more!

    There is also a space for grandma and grandpa to record special memories, a family tree to fill in with the kiddies, and activities to facilitate meaningful conversations between generations. The Complete Guide to Practically Perfect Grandparenting is certainly a keepsake book that will be treasured by any grandparent!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateApr 7, 2015
    ISBN9781632207548
    The Complete Guide to Practically Perfect Grandparenting: Stories, Nursery Rhymes, Recipes, Games, Crafts and More
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    Abigail Gehring

    Abigail R. Gehring is the author or editor of more than a dozen books including Back to Basics, Homesteading, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living, and Classic Candy. She enjoys writing, gardening, experimenting in the kitchen, and spending time with family. She lives with her husband and two children in an 1800s farmstead they are restoring in Marlboro, Vermont.

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      The Complete Guide to Practically Perfect Grandparenting - Abigail Gehring

      Introduction

      There’s a very old tin of metal cookie cutters tucked in the back of my pantry. It comes out a few times a year, mostly around holidays, and when it does I’m transported back to the country home and cookie-making of my childhood. In that home, where anything which came down through the family was special, the tin of old cookie cutters was a standout for me! I can see my mother bustling from pantry to table, collecting sprinkles, nuts, dried fruits, at least three kinds of sugar, and—that tin. All the wonderfully excessive extravagancies to carry out the delightful and important job of making cookie gifts for others (and us!) were assembled, and I couldn’t wait to help get the yummy dough rolled out. We had to put on our aprons first, and my red printed one was tied just so to make it short enough to keep me from tripping on it, but amply protective, as I’d soon be covered in flour and frosting. As I’d choose a shape, she’d exclaim, Oh, that one was your great-grandmother Adams’, or, Grandma Morse gave me these, and this one was handmade by my dear Grandpa Derry. The aroma from the cookies baking, the taste of the dough—how it all comes back! Happy projects and family history lessons from my mother and from my grandparents and beloved Great Aunt Sylvia Derry, too, live to enrich today. Intertwined in those memories is a feeling of safety, comfort, and the anticipation of good things. It is a legacy I yearn to share with our grandchildren!

      In a few weeks, my five-year-old grandson Atticus will be visiting, and I’m already looking forward to baking cookies together. We’ll get out the old cookie cutters—the goose that looks like an upside-down umbrella, the gingerbread man with the pointy cap, the slightly misshapen star. We’ll get on our aprons—the red one for Atticus!—and we’ll both be covered in flour and dough before the oven’s even up to temperature. This is one of the greatest joys of grandparenting: sharing the small things that have shaped our lives in positive ways, and watching them take root in the little ones.

      Often it’s the simplest activities that mean the most. Just taking time to listen to what your grandchild has to say can make a big difference in both of your lives. As a young mother, I remember longing for more time to spend with my kids, but so often the days were filled with a busyness that was all-consuming—jobs, errands, housework, meetings, guests. Though life doesn’t exactly feel slow even now, certain demands have lessened, and the opportunity to spend undivided hours enjoying time with my grandson feels like a second chance and an incredible gift. Grandparents offer children the unique opportunity to be the center of attention for a few minutes or an hour or a day. Who else has the time and desire to sit and listen as he shows off every toy in his bedroom? Even the most dedicated Mommy or Daddy is not the best candidate—they’ve seen every toy already and have a million other things on their minds. Friends are good for a few minutes, but most don’t have enough patience for the complete bedroom tour. Grandparents, on the other hand, are in the perfect position to make their grandchild feel like the most important thing in the world just by being present, by listening, by taking time to get to know him (and his museum-sized Transformers collection).

      Though no formal activities are needed to create meaningful interaction with children, sometimes playing a game together or sharing a yummy homemade treat can make an already special day with Grandpa or Grandma that much more fun. With this book, you’re sure to be prepared next time you hear those dreaded words, Grandma, I’m bored. With activities ranging from educational science experiments to creative crafts to silly games, boredom will have no place in your home. And, for those of you who, like me, live an airplane trip away from the little ones, you’ll find ideas for long distance bonding. There are plenty of kid-friendly recipes in here, too, and classic nursery rhymes you may have once heard while bouncing on your grandmother’s knee. Be sure to flip through the pages at the back, where you’ll find inspiration for sharing family stories with the little ones—they are our future, and the better they understand us and our history, the longer we’ll live on in their hearts and minds.

      I can imagine my grandson one day pulling out the old cookie cutters—probably rusted and even more misshapen than they are now—and placing them in front of his children or grandchildren. I hope he’ll remember our old farmhouse kitchen with the snow falling outside the windows and the cat curled up under the stove. I hope he’ll remember the stories and laughs and fun we shared, but through all that, I hope he’ll remember how special he is and how much his grandpa and I love him.

      ~Martha M. Gehring

      Stories and Nursery Rhymes

      Baa, baa, black sheep

      The Elves and the Shoemaker

      Jack and Jill

      Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep

      The Princess and the Pea

      Little Miss Muffet

      The north wind doth blow

      The Ugly Duckling

      Pat-a-cake

      The Twelve Dancing Princesses

      Little Jack Horner

      Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall

      Rapunzel

      Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow

      Sleeping Beauty

      Hey! Diddle, diddle

      The Tale of Peter Rabbit

      The Three Bears

      Hickery, dickery, dock

      Mary, Mary, quite contrary

      Baa, baa, black sheep,

      Have you any wool?

      Yes, marry, have I,

      Three bags full;

      One for my master,

      And one for my dame,

      And one for the little boy

      Who lives down the lane.

      The Elves and the Shoemaker

      Adapted from the Grimm Brothers’ tale

      There was once a shoemaker, who, through no fault of his own, became so poor that at last he had nothing left but just enough leather to make one pair of shoes. He cut out the shoes at night so he could start sewing them first thing the next morning and then went to bed and fell sound asleep. In the morning, after he had said his prayers, he was about to get to work when he found the pair of shoes already finished and sitting on his table! He was very much astonished, and didn’t know what to think, and he picked the shoes up to examine them more closely. They were so well made that every stitch was in its right place, just as if they had come from the hand of a master-workman.

      Soon after, a customer entered his shop and tried on the shoes. They fit him so well that he gave the shoemaker more than the usual price for them, so that the shoemaker had enough money to buy leather for two more pairs of shoes. He cut them out at night, and intended to set to work the next morning

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