I love My Grandpa

This book is a part of the ‘I Love My Family’ series intends to provide English reading books with Islamic moral contents. This book is especially designed for young children with eye catching illustrations to remind them about the good times with their Grandpa.

Reading such short stories will encourage children to respect and love their Grandpa and encourage them to build a unique relationship bond as the relationship with your grandchild. This can also be rewarding for both generations, and can have a very positive influence on his development. Children who have warm relationships with their grandparents tend to be more resilient and can bounce back better during life's ups and downs.

This Book also includes

• Filled with decent funniness, detailed illustrations and charming characters to motivate every child.
• Perfect for the National Curriculum.
• Carefully levelled to make sure every child makes reading progress and improves their reading age. 

Grandparents are the Perfect Combinations

Many years ago, families stayed close together throughout their lifetimes. Whether it was due to the difficulty of traveling hundreds of miles or the need to stick together in order to find adequate food, shelter, and security, most families consisted of at least three generations. If they didn't live in the same home, they often lived within the same community.

Children were raised by parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. They became accustomed to seeing both younger adults and the elderly in their separate roles. They were well acquainted with the aging process and it was accepted.The elderly were often respected for their knowledge and the younger folks helped to meet the needs of their grandparents as they aged. Social isolation during our later years was less of an issue as families remained close.

The beauty of this relationship was that children could benefit from the wisdom of their elders, develop a sense of respect, compassion, and care for seniors. In addition, children could learn from experience that aging is an acceptable process. Parents, on the other hand, had the assistance of the elders in the work of caring for their family, while the elderly were allowed to be useful and to experience the joy that children can bring.

The Separation of Children and Grandparents

Over time of course families have changed. In some families, children come along later in life and grandparents are no longer around. In others, estrangement has occurred. But even in more traditional scenarios, some children have limited involvement with their grandparents. With the ease of travel making relocation simple and job opportunities often calling families away from their birth home, families have increasingly been separated from their elderly relatives.

Despite smart phones, e-mail, and the ability to travel back to see a grandparent on special occasions, these types of interactions do limit the quality of the relationship between children and elderly family members. Even for those children who have grandparents in their lives, a separation often occurs once illness or disability begins to enter the picture.

It's rare for families to have the resources available to bring a senior family member into their own home to better accommodate their growing needs if there's any significant cognitive or physical difficulty. The elderly in these situations are therefore isolated, often living their lives in some type of assisted living environment that the family visits less frequently.

Why Reconnecting Grandparents and Grandchildren Might Be Important

Although this separation often occurs for understandable reasons, it would seem that actively working to increase the connection between children and grandparents, or at least children and the elderly in general, would be wise for the following reasons:

• To develop a sense of compassion and caring. Children who learn from a young age to care for others tend to grow into caring adults. Caring for pets, for the needy, for the elderly, or others can have a long-lasting influence on the character development of kids.
• To improve the lives of the elderly. For an elderly individual, the stimulation of having kids around can help with keeping them mentally sharp and engaged. It can lessen depression in instances where social isolation has become a problem.
• To improve social acceptance of aging. Many children end up having a bias toward the elderly. From viewing the aged as mean, weak, or ignorant to simply finding them socially unacceptable, some children grow up avoiding the elderly and even ridiculing them. The best way to combat this is to assure that children have plenty of opportunities from a young age onward to become better acquainted with older individuals. Including the elderly in the lives of younger children helps to assure a more ready acceptance of such individuals in later life but the benefits potentially go beyond this. If children see elderly individuals dealing with disabilities and continuing on with their lives as either productive, happy, or loving individuals, then they will be more accepting of this process in their own lives in later years as they age.
• To provide grandchildren with another source of support and wisdom. For some kids, grandparents can be another person to turn to when there is adversity. Someone in addition to their parent or parents to cheer them on, to help problem solve a difficult situation, to assist with homework, to share wisdom, and more.

Additional Product Information

• ISBN 13: 978-099342-11-36
• ISBN 10: 0993421136
• ISBN: 9780993421136
• SKU 1: 23214
• SKU 2: Lira-GRA-01
• Publisher: LIRA (London Islamic Resarch Academy)
• Cover: Paperback
• Binding: Paperback
• Format: Paperback
• Author: K.K. Uddin
• Size: 16x24cm

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