September Newsletter

Welcome to the September newsletter. Between newsletters New Zealand went back into lock down again, masks have become mandatory and a new social norms have emerged. Like most folk we haven't been anywhere for ages and had to cancel a weekend with friends who live only an hour away. Anyway, we are trying again next month and let's hope the world will allow this to happen. Right now I am crafting the text of 'Being a distance grandparent' — a slow, but worthwhile task. Here are some snippets from August.

Take care

Helen

An article with impact: 'With borders closed our lifelines to family overseas have been cut.'

If you haven't seen this, Daisy Dumas is spot on.

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Intergenerational empathy

My key reason for writing three books about the three generations of distance familying is to offer us all a chance to read and understand ‘how it is’ for the ‘other’.​

Bridget Romanes, a NZ relocation expert, once said ‘Empathy costs nothing, but gives a lot.’

In this COVID time, it is very easy to assume we understand how other generations feel and think, as we each navigate the new playing field of distance familying.

​Ageist attitudes and ageism can easily appear in both directions. This article provides food for thought about intergenerational interaction.

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Distance families, Covid-19 and Ambiguous Loss

 Penning some thoughts from my research.

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