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Grandchildren Want Digital Connections

Grandchildren Want Digital Connections

Connecting with Grandchildren via Digital

Grandchildren want digital connections with their grandparents.  Are you staying current enough to be there – where ever that is – when they ask for it?  It used to be my space, then facebook, text, twitter, instagram and so on.  By the time we master it seems they have found something new.  So I am now finding something that allows me to connect with them and they know I am there for them.

I have hang outs with my 3 year old granddaughter so we can read a book together.  We also skype and facetime.  My eight year old granddaughter loves to do facetime and practice her charms.  My 13 year old grandson posts things to instagram and sometimes I see it.  My 11 year old grandson love food so he checks out my recipes and asks for special meals when he visits.  The 15 year old keeps me on my toes and teaches me what I need to know.

How about you?

Games for the 50+, Grandparents & Grandchildren Friendly Video 

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The right game environment offers both the connections around activity and adventure but also helps to bridge the digital differences between generations. Next time, we’ll talk about some surprising connections between 

 

Grandchildren Want More Digital Family Connections

11/4/12

A survey of almost a thousand UK youngsters reveals that they are fine with their parents and grandparents being on Facebook; in fact, they want more family connectedness on social networks. Here are more highlights from 

http://www.retirementhomes.com/library/5-digital-ways-to-connect-grandparents-with-grandchildren/“>5 Digital Ways To Connect Grandparents With Grandchildren

10/30/12

Every person starts off with four grandparents. Even so, it’s common that some or all grandparents may live many hours away. Precious time between these generations is sweet but often too short. But now technology provides Read the rest of this entry

SquareHub Family Network

SquareHub Family Network

A Private Family Network – SquareHub

Do you need a private way to communicate with EVERYONE in your Family – and no one else. There’s an App for that – SquareHub Family Network.   As a grandmother, I am in awe of the amount of coordination required to manage today’s busy family.  I am often asked to help in the pick ups or transfers or game day events.  When live gets complicated, clear communication is difficult and that is BEFORE you add in the element of teenage communication skills – with their grandparent, no less.

This nifty new app might  be just the thing to communicate with everyone we need to and not those we don’t.   SquareHub, a free iOS mobile app for sending private messages and photos, coordinating activities, and sharing those spontaneous moments of joy with just the family.

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SquareHub addresses the need to coordinate multiple activities each day while keeping personal information private. With SquareHub, every family member on the network can send instant private messages and photos. Parents can coordinate activities and kids can request a pickup or tell parents privately when they will be home. SquareHub replaces the inconvenience of multiple communication avenues—texting, phone calls and email—with the ease of a single app that all members can use.

Families with active teenagers, professional parents, divorced parents, and military families will love the privacy protection, efficiency, and virtual presence SquareHub brings to their daily communication. With SquareHub, families no longer have to think twice about sharing personal details like where everybody is, what everyone is doing and those goofy, memorable moments they want to share with each other.

 

Plus it appears to be a great planning tool for my brothers and I as we are coordinating help for our parents.  Add an element of fun and you have what appears to be a very useful tool.

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Did I mention it is FREE and PRIVATE?  I love that!

 

 

Video Picks this Week

Video Picks this Week
Video Picks this Week

This Week’s Video Picks for YouTube Babies –

We all think our babies and grandbabies are adorable, brilliant and the best things ever created.   Of course, only some of us are correctwink.  The Dalai-Nana is starting a new weekly post of the best baby videos for the week.  These come from youtube BUT if you have some to share then let me know and I will feature your babies!  Enjoy the Video Picks this Week.

The Baby Bachelor – Episode 1

Jimmy Kimmel Live – The Baby Bachelor – Episode 1 Jimmy Kimmel Live’s YouTube channel features clips and recaps of every episode from the late night TV show …

The First Taste: Saatchi & Saatchi at TEDxSydney

A delightful look at children taking their first taste of some challenging foods. Filmed in high speed, stunning clarity, this film allows us to almost see t…

Worry About Yourself Video

A Little Girl appropriately repeating words she has clearly heard a view times…Worry About Yourself Video.