Family Conversations

12/22/2020

Helpful Covid opportunities older adults and families with children
For ideas including a free 30 minute consultation about these topics, read the latest article in Family Conversations™ https://www.familyconversations.com/articles/

There are two large problems facing us as the pandemic continues. Increased isolation for older adults, and increased stress for families with school-aged children.

We work with families, children and older adults to solve problems. We’ve seen and created many opportunities for grandparents, and other older adults, to help families, friends and neighbors who have children at home.

Talk with us; and together we’ll help you make life more rewarding and satisfying for yourself and your neighbors.
You can also contact us at www.familyconversations.com or call 952 884-1128.

Older adults, families with children, the pandemic, and helpful opportunities 11-08-2020 It’s been eight months since Covid-19 has changed the lives of most of us – school-age children, families, and older adults. Indications are the pandemic will be getting worse before getting better sometime ...

12/22/2020

Friction Getting Together With Family or Friends?

People look forward to celebrating holidays from Thanksgiving through Chanukah, Kwanza and Christmas, to New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Why is this year different from all others?

Our Winter newsletter (https://www.familyconversations.com/winter-2020-2021-holiday-celebrations-and-the-covid-pandemic/) is all about dealing with difficult people and situations. How to decide what’s safest for you, your family, and friends – without the fights and making others wrong.

For many older adults this holiday season the challenge will be to find ways to turn the heat down. Even in normal years moral viewpoints and politics are almost surefire triggers for many families or friends. This year is different, and we can help.

Talk with us; and together we’ll help you make life more satisfying and less stressful. For a free consultation contact Rich at www.familyconversations.com or call 952 884-1128.

Winter 2020-2021 – Holiday Celebrations and the Covid Pandemic People look forward to celebrating holidays from Thanksgiving through Chanukah, Kwanza and Christmas, to New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Why are this year’s celebrations different from all others? Winter 2020-2021 – Covid, H...

04/02/2019

AgeQuake (www.agequake.com) and Family Conversations (www.familyconversations.com) are both live now. They include a newsletter and a Q & A section.

Age Quake is the website for family mediation dealing with care giving, medical concerns, finance, housing, transportation and many other issues affecting older adults and their families. Family Conversations is for family meetings around grandparents raising grandchildren, multi-generational living situations, and workplace issues faced by older adults and their families. We also help youth transitioning to adulthood. Take a look and sign up for our newsletters. Peace.

05/02/2018

Coming To Terms With Our Mortality

Woody Allen once said, “I don’t mind dying, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

Is this the way you feel about life and death? Especially the death part?

To read more visit http://familyconversations.com/coming-to-terms-with-our-mortality/

04/21/2018

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Your children have left the nest. You're retired, or thinking about retiring, and one of your adult children wants you to care for their child - your grandchild. And have that child move in with you. What can you say? That's your grandchild, so most likely you say, "yes". Now what do you do?

To read more visit http://familyconversations.com/grandparents-raising-grandchildren/

04/14/2018

Caregiving: The caregivers and care receivers

Often family issues around older adults, who need more help, have to do with care-giving and their caregivers. What's often brought up in anger, and rarely addressed in a positive way, is what care receivers can do to help their caregivers. It often seems one-sided.

To read more visit http://familyconversations.com/caregiving/

08/02/2013

Interesting personal thought today. Our Aging group gets together this morning. We're a group of 60 something to 80 something year-old friends wrestling with the concept of growing older, consciously. This week I had a discussion with my mom's hospice nurse as well as her other nurses and social worker. She's 94 and slowly declining, both physically and mentally. As much as I want to believe she'll improve after a recent fall, her nurse made it clear, she won't get back to the way she was before the fall. When I visit each week, or talk on the phone I need to be aware of the time I have left with her. It isn't forever. It's only right now. And then I need to remember the time I have left, myself, is only right now and not forever, and to make good use of that time. Spend time with family, with friends, with people, projects and organizations I hold dear to my heart. Most of the other stuff is just fluff and time wasting. Peace.

06/23/2013

Please check in on relatives, friends and neighbors who may be older or have some sort of disability. With storms over the past two days, power outages and heat can contribute to difficult situations for many people.

01/27/2013

Time waits for no one. Fortunately I talked with mom frequently about her last wishes. She's getting to the point where it's difficult to judge her comprehension. The one thing we all know for sure is she loves her root beer floats.