Karen Best Wright, B.S., M.A., Holistic Wellness Practitioner www.WellnessWayforWomen.com www.RaisingYourGrandchildren I am excited to announce that I have started a new social media group for grandparents raising grandchildren and other relatives raising relative children. A few months back I closed down, after seven years, the Facebook group I had created and that many grandparents enjoyed. It was time for me to go a different route. My new group is on MeWe.com. It is similar to Facebook but does not have all of the ads that clog up your newsfeed as well as other feelings of intrusion. The r ..read more

Karen Best Wright, BS, MA, Holistic Wellness Coach www.WellnessWayforWomen.com www.RaisingYourGrandchildren.com 2020 has definitely been a year to remember. For most it has been long, stressful, perhaps overwhelming, or lonely. Some children are back in school, some schooling from home, and others are doing a combination of both. This puts a lot of stress on parents and grandparents. Faith, the youngest of the grandchildren I raised, was a High School 2020 graduate. She was bummed that the Senior Prom was cancelled. We had to wait until August 1st to have her graduation on the new football fi ..read more

By Karen Best Wright, B.S., M.A., Holistic Wellness Coach www.WellnessWayforWomen.com www.RaisingYourGrandchildren.com Wow! I can't believe it has been six months since I wrote in my blog. The first half of 2020 has been quite an ordeal for a lot of people. It's been tough enough on young parents with children. Now, imagine grandparents in their 60's and 70's trying to care for multiple children and guide them through schooling online. Long-distance schooling through the schools is very different than actual homeschooling. So if you found the online schooling provided by the schools way beyond ..read more

Karen Best Wright, B.S., M.A. Holistic Health Educator and Coach www.WellnessWayforWomen.com www.RaisingYourGrandchildren.com Many of us love our pets. They become part of our family. The topic here is whether or not one should buy a pet for the benefit of the grandchildren to teach them responsibility by caring for a pet. I suppose the answer to this is if you are a big pet person yourself and are used to the care that is involved. We had dogs and cats when my granddaughters were small. I was in charge of the animals as well as the children. The kiddos did like to "help." Life made many chang ..read more

Karen Best Wright, B.S., M.A. Health Educator and Holistic Wellness Coach www.Raisingyourgrandchildren.com www.WellnessWayforWomen.com OH MY GOODNESS: A dinner mishap. Faith (17 year old granddaughter) wanted to make barbequed chicken sandwiches for dinner, so we went grocery shopping. She used our Insta Pot, which I don't even know how to use, to make the chicken. While it was cooking, our dog Bagel the Beagle was throwing up chunks of stuff all over the house. What the heck? I had no idea what he was throwing up. THEN when the chicken was done, Faith asked me if I knew where the 100% whole w ..read more

Karen Best Wright, B.S., M.A, Holistic Health & Wellness Coach www.RaisingYourGrandchildren.com Holidays can bring joy and excitement into our lives or they can bring sadness, loneliness  and tears. I'm not even going to pretend to know which is more painful, to be young, lonely, and separated from family or to be a grandparent raising children pretending that everything is as we want it to be. Every situation is different. We may be "young" grandparents with the energy and money we need to make Christmas a wonderful time of the year. Or we may be "older" grandparents living on social secu ..read more

Karen Best Wright, B.S., M.A., Health Educator www.RaisingYourGrandchidren.com www.TheWellnessWay.org RRC Families (relatives raising children) Our online FB support group for grandparents and relatives raising children has moved locations. Same group, same important group rules. If you are not a member and would like to join, please visit us and read about our group, either under DESCRIPTION or on the group ABOUT or INFO page. This group is for grandparents and other relatives raising children. This is not for birth parents or the children themselves.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/RRCfamil ..read more