The Modern Grandparent
By Margot Reyes
Grandparenting across distance, divorce, working years, and blended families
A guide to grandparenting as the role actually looks today — long-distance, still working, navigating a co-parent's rules, blended families, and the harder chapters like kinship care and limited access.
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Grandparenting After Your Child's Divorce: The Gatekeeper Question
Not taking sides even when you have one, adjusting to two households and a new schedule, and supporting your own child without overstepping into their co-parenting decisions.
Grandparenting While Still Working: PTO, Flexibility, and the Guilt Question
Naming what you actually have to give as a working grandparent, the practical mechanics of PTO and flexibility, and why guilt isn't a requirement of the job.
Grandparents' Rights: What They Actually Mean and When Legal Action Backfires
What 'grandparents' rights' actually means legally, when pursuing legal action helps and when it backfires, and how to try repairing the relationship before reaching for the courthouse.
Long-Distance Grandparenting: Video Calls, Mail, and Visits That Actually Matter
The video call format that actually works with young kids, mail that isn't just a formality, and how to make rare visits count more instead of trying to pack in too much.
Parenting the Second Time Around: What's Different, What's Harder
The body keeps the score, a world that moved while you were away, standing alone at pickup — what's genuinely harder about raising a grandchild after already raising your own kids, and what age actually gives you.
Step-Grandparents and Blended Families: Building the Relationship Without Forcing It
How step-grandparents build a genuine relationship without forcing it, respect the biological grandparents' role, and navigate holidays and gifts across a blended family.
The Kinship Care Reality: Why More Grandparents Are Raising Grandchildren
Why kinship care is happening more often, the suddenness it usually arrives with, grieving your own child while raising theirs, and the legal basics — custody, guardianship, and kinship foster care.
The New Rules of Grandparenting: Distance, Two-Income Families, and Blended Households
Grandparenting has changed shape without anyone announcing it — distance is the new default, two-income households changed what grandparents are for, and blended families mean more relationships, not fewer.