Glorious Grandparenting: Having the Time of Your Life with Your Grandchildren

Hunniford, Gloria

Biographies & Memoirs

Vermilion

Grandparenting is not what it used to be. For the younger generation, an apple or blackberry has a whole new meaning and they will never know what it means to 'wait for the TV to warm up'. As the proud, keen and enthusiastic grandmother to nine wonderful grandchildren, Gloria Hunniford knows a thing or two about keeping up with them. For nearly two decades they have brought her unimaginable joy and, frankly, kept her on her toes. In Glorious Grandparenting she shares her ideas for what to do when the grandchildren come to stay, how to keep pace with them as they grow older, as well as many of her own treasured memories: playing 'animal, vegetable, mineral' on long car journeys to Cornwall, eating picnic lunches in a tent pitched in the garden and practising dance moves to be performed at family parties. For many grandparents these days, life isn't always easy. In this book, Gloria speaks to those who feel 'taken for granted' as a childminder, have conflicting views on childcare, or, sadly have become separated from their grandchildren. She looks at the controversial lack of legal rights for grandparents and offers advice and guidance on handling these emotive issues. Having grandchildren and spending time with them is one of life's great joys. Glorious Grandparenting is a wonderful celebration of what it is to be a grandparent today.

A moving, thought-provoking and uplifting story of a wonderful mother, daughter relationship.\nGloria Hunniford's daughter, TV presenter Caron Keating, was 34 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.\nThe next seven years of Caron's life, and her family's, became a quest for recovery that ultimately took them across the world.\nThey became experts in the illness and its treatment, both conventional and alternative. All the while Caron was living in the public eye and keeping her own, devastating secret.\nThis is Gloria's account of Caron's life. It is about the difficult bond between mothers and daughters ... about what happens to a family when one of its members gets taken over by a disease.\nIt's a celebration of an unbreakable mother - daughter relationship and how that relationship withstood the strain of Caron's illness. And above all it's a book to commemorate a spirited, magical woman. A woman who loved life and fought to hold onto it.\n'It is outstanding from the beginning ... feels painfully truthful but is utterly absorbing. It does make you cry - endlessly' Daily Express\n'We see Caron as a daughter, a sister, a wife, a friend and a mother - but most of all as a fighter. This is not a story of illness and death rather it's a beautiful, emotional celebration of an extraordinary life that sadly ended far too soon. A beautiful read' Daily Record

Next to You: Caron's Courage Remembered by Her Mother

Parenting & Relationships

Penguin

Good health and maximum energy are crucial at every age, but perhaps it is in the approach to fifty that we really begin to assess our lifestyles for the longer term benefits. How do I look? How do I feel? How do I make changes? How do I cope with the menopause? Can I find alternatives to HRT? How do I exercise? How do I keep my love life active?

Feel Fabulous over Fifty

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Vries, Jan De

Nutrition

Help Yourself

Always with You: Facing Life After Loss

On April 13th, 2004, Gloria Hunniford's 41-year-old daughter, Caron Keating, died after a secret seven year battle with cancer. The world that had changed with Caron's diagnosis, now shattered. Life had been cruelly interrupted, a black hole opened in Gloria;s heart, she was consumed with the unimaginable grief that the loss of a child brings, and she was alone—or so she felt. Within days of Caron's death letters started to arrive. People who had lost their children felt compelled to write. Strangers understood what she was going through often more than the family and friends standing next to her. There were many, many dark days but the letters kept coming and somehow she managed to do the impossible. Wake up everyday, get out of bed, breathe. The black hole is still there, sometimes as big as ever, but she has found a way to live with it, around it. This is the story of how Gloria and her family survived Caron's death, but it is not only her story. It is written for those who held her while she raged. It is written for all those people who helped her through that first terrible year by writing, but mostly it is written for the many thousands who didn't. Grief is lonely, but as this book shows, you are not alone. Death affects us all at some point. Gloria will never again be the carefree woman she once was, the loss of a loved one is always with you, but so are the living. This is how she found her way back to them.

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Hodder&Stoughton

On April 13th, 2004, Gloria Hunniford's 41-year-old daughter, Caron Keating, died after a secret seven year battle with cancer. The world that had changed with Caron's diagnosis, now shattered. Life had been cruelly interrupted, a black hole opened in Gloria's heart, she was consumed with the unimaginable grief that the loss of a child brings, and she was alone—or so she felt. Within days of Caron's death letters started to arrive. People who had lost their children felt compelled to write. Strangers understood what she was going through often more than the family and friends standing next to her. There were many, many dark days but the letters kept coming and somehow she managed to do the impossible. Wake up everyday, get out of bed, breathe. The black hole is still there, sometimes as big as ever, but she has found a way to live with it, around it. This is the story of how Gloria and her family survived Caron's death, but it is not only her story. It is written for those who held her while she raged. It is written for all those people who helped her through that first terrible year by writing, but mostly it is written for the many thousands who didn't. Grief is lonely, but as this book shows, you are not alone. Death affects us all at some point. Gloria will never again be the carefree woman she once was, the loss of a loved one is always with you, but so are the living. This is how she found her way back to them.

Good health and maximum energy are of increasing importance to those over 50. In Help Yourself Feel Fabulous Over Fifty, authors Gloria Hunniford and Jan de Vries reveal the secrets of lifelong vitality, covering topics including lifestyle, diet, vitamins, exercise, and attitude.

Help Yourself Feel Fabulous Over Fifty

De Vries, Jan

Keats Pub.

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Next To You: Caron's Courage Remembered By Her Mother

Michael Joseph, Ltd.

Always with You

Relationships

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Glorious Grandparenting: Having the Time of Your Life with Your Grandchildren

Glorious Grandparenting: Having the Time of Your Life with Your Grandchildren

Next to You: Caron's Courage Remembered by Her Mother

Feel Fabulous over Fifty

Always with You: Facing Life After Loss

Always with You: Facing Life After Loss

Always with You: Facing Life After Loss

Help Yourself Feel Fabulous Over Fifty

Next To You: Caron's Courage Remembered By Her Mother

Always with You