The long distance Grandparenting task, then,
is to learn how to form these salient memories.
A preponderance of research on Grandparenting confirms that attachments are best formed
by being with one grandchild at a time.
For a significant number of us, Grandparenting implies a weekend get-together,
an evening play date, a night looking after children, summer get-away, or talks on the telephone and email.
However, high-intensity Grandparenting has been associated with poorer health outcomes,
while nonintensive grandchild care(4 or more hours a week) was associated with improved well-being in grandfathers and lower depression scores of grandmothers.
For many of us, Grandparenting means a weekend together every now and then,
an afternoon play date, an evening babysitting, a summer vacation, or chats on the phone and email exchanges here and there.
A new cross-cultural study indicates that the adjustment to caregiving by grandparents depends on whether it's by choice or obligation[1], and data reveal that higher
educated grandparents provide less intensive Grandparenting than lower socioeconomic groups.