{"id":4324,"date":"2017-02-18T08:23:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T08:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2017-04-05T13:30:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:30:04","slug":"becoming-grandma-by-lesley-stahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4324","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Grandma by Lesley Stahl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1651689\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4333\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Becoming-Grandma-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though I am not a grandparent (and not about to become one), I saw Lesley Stahl&#8217;s book about grandparents and grandchildren and thought I would take a look &#8211; or a listen to the audiobook.\u00a0 Being familiar with Lesley from <em>60 Minutes<\/em>, I found her stories from her own family life and experiences well written and researched.\u00a0 There is a science to the instant affection between grandparents and their newborn grandchildren.\u00a0 This is explained as an overwhelming feeling of attachment akin to love at first sight.\u00a0 There is also a wealth of difference in the parental experience and the &#8220;grands&#8221; experience.\u00a0 Differences in age and what grands will be called today are not what they were in the past.\u00a0 Finances also affect the family experience and more children are being raised by grandparents or foster grandparents today than ever.<\/p>\n<p>The book describes the birth of grand-daughters Jordan and Chloe and stories from interviews with Diane Sawyer, Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Brokaw.\u00a0 The grandfather experience and step-grandparents are also covered.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a grandparent, a parent, or a grandchild, you will find this description of modern family relationships of interest.\u00a0 There is more to family dynamics than I would have thought possible, and Lesley Stahl narrates a wonderful audiobook on &#8220;the Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1651689\" target=\"_blank\">Reserve a copy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I am not a grandparent (and not about to become one), I saw Lesley Stahl&#8217;s book about grandparents and grandchildren and thought I would take a look &#8211; or a listen to the audiobook.\u00a0 Being familiar with Lesley from 60 Minutes, I found her stories from her own family life and experiences well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4324\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Becoming Grandma by Lesley Stahl<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-barbara-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}