First Time Grandparents and a Pandemic-What You Should Know-Charlotte Today
First Time Grandparents
When shutdowns began in the United States back in March, there were murmurs of the baby boom that would materialize. All that free time for cohabitating couples surely would result in overflowing maternity units come December, the speculation went. In December we saw the first pandemic babies born. And while there are no national statistics, some maternity units in the U.S. have reported a 30% increase in births. Certainly there were new babies created. First time parents. And yes, first time grandparents. So what are some things new grandparents should know? Watch and/or listen to my Charlotte Today interview. And during Covid, here are some tips for grandparents:
- If you can visit do but take the precautions. We did spend a lot of time with our grandkids during the holidays in PA. But we had a Covid test before we left and quarantined at our mountain house before engaging.
- If you can’t visit then make the most of video calls to get to know them.
- Of course if you are a brand new grandparent, chances are the end of the pandemic could coincide to the time when it just gets to be fun – six to nine months in. Be patient.
- No matter your ability to interact now, think about what a gift grandchildren are at this particular place in time. They give us hope for the future in a world that often seems dark and hopeless. They remind us of what really matters. Spend time with your grandchildren and you will remember what matters most.
Our Friday Song of the Week – Crossroads
Crossroads
Legal Strategies to Protect Yourself and a Love One – Wendy Witt
Dotting the I’s and Crossing the T’s. Legal Strategies to Protect Yourself and a Loved One – Wendy Witt – https://amillionfamilies.org
In this podcast, Wendy Witt will teach you how to protect yourself and your loved ones while navigating caregiving and long-term care issues. Estate planning, ethical wills, power of attorney – these are but a few of the topics Wendy will cover.
With a mission to protect a million families with law, legacy, loot – and love, Wendy Witt, JD is the founder of a Million Families.org, a social enterprise focused on families like yours.
Why found a Million Families.org? Because as an estate planning lawyer, Wendy could protect, say, a thousand families. As a legal marketing consultant, she can help protect hundreds of thousands of families. Through a Million Families.org and outreach to good folks like you, Wendy will help protect a million families and we want yours to be one of them.
In 1999, while Wendy was pregnant with her third child, she researched estate planning so that she could protect her own family (from an “undesirable” relative…do you have any of those?). Anyway, Wendy had to protect her babies – and – once she knew how to do that, she also knew she had to help you protect your family as well. So, she joined the estate planning law firm (where she did her own planning) and practiced estate planning and elder law for 15+ years, protecting families like yours.
As a leader in the estate planning community, Wendy has mentored over 8,000 estate planning and elder law attorneys, empowering them to protect more families.
Yes, Wendy admit she’s a lawyer, but don’t let that stop you from liking her. She and her lawyer friends and are the good guys – all day, they focus on helping folks like you protect your families. That’s why we do what we do.
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Rewriting the Aging Script – From Surviving to Thriving – Dr. Maria Zayas
Rewriting the Aging Script – From Surviving to Thriving with Dr. Maria Zayas
It is critical to navigate our elder years with conscious intention. The positive aging movement has focused on processes of self-discovery and transformation to clear patterns that sabotage us. Caregiving provides an opportunity to review our lives and significant relationships from a standpoint of care and compassion. You will learn how to transform an experience of surviving into an experience of thriving.
Dr. Maria Zayas has been a licensed psychologist for almost thirty years. She earned her doctorate in psychology at Columbia University in New York City, and has received advanced training in a number of holistic health modalities over the years. In addition to being a practicing psychologist, Dr. Zayas is a faculty member of the Psychology Department at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, where she teaches in the undergraduate and graduate psychology programs and conducts research to enhance scientific knowledge and practical application in the areas of integrative health and well-being. She is also a certified yoga teacher and a HeartMath trainer, mentor, and clinical practitioner. Her clinical practice focuses on supporting people as they move through life transitions by helping them understand and update personal patterns to empower a new level of awareness, choice and authentic self-expression.
As the number of individuals who live long and productive lives increases, it becomes critical to navigate the elder years with conscious intention, both for personal well-being and satisfaction, as well as for the sake of bringing the collective wisdom of the that generation into a world that sorely needs support from wise elders. Following in the tradition of indigenous cultures, who revere and employ the gifts of their elders, the positive aging movement has focused on moving through social and psychological processes of self-discovery and transformation to clear habitual patterns of thought and action that sabotage our full creative expression in the world, whether mental, emotional, physical or spiritual. Consciously exploring those patterns and the countless issues we have faced over a lifetime releases a wealth of energy that can then be used for living in joy and productive expression, making it possible to release obstacles to self-realization and move into a new creative space. Nowhere is that more important than in our role as caregiver, an opportunity which provides us with a vehicle for reviewing our lives and significant relationships from a standpoint of care and compassion. By engaging in the possibilities of this rite of passage, we can transform an experience of surviving into an experience of thriving. Join Dr. Maria Zayas for this informative podcast.
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Our Friday Song of the Week – Sunshine of Your Life
Sunshine of Your Life