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From Nannie’s House When Your Grandchild Is Being Bullied  From Nannie’s House My youngest granddaughter has experienced severe bullying. I am intentionally not sharing the details. Those belong to her, and one day she gets to decide which parts of her childhood story she wants other people to know. What I will share is the part that belongs to me. Being the adult watching it happen is hard. You want to protect your grandchild. You want the problem stopped. You want someone at the school to understand why this is more serious than children simply not getting along. And when you are angry or worried, figuring out exactly what to say to the teacher, counselor, principal, or another parent is not always easy. That is the part I want to help another Nannie, Grandma, Grandpa, aunt, uncle, or kinship caregiver through....

A NEW BOOK FROM GRANDFAMILY AI You Took Them In. Now What? The GrandFamily Paperwork & Benefits Playbook Because loving your grandchildren should not mean having to figure out every school form, medical permission, and financial assistance program on your own. Kindle Edition | $7.99 View My Book on Amazon → Available now in the Amazon Kindle Store Nobody Hands You an Instruction Manual Sometimes becoming a full-time grandparent happens gradually. Other times, everything changes overnight. A child needs somewhere safe to stay. A family situation has become complicated. Someone needs to step in, and you find yourself saying yes before you have the slightest idea how everything is supposed to work. You make room in your home. You figure out where everyone will sleep. You start thinking about school, clothes, meals, appointments, and the hundred little things that make up everyday life. Then come the questions. How do I e...

  Benefits, Kinship Payments, Tax Credits & Programs for 2026 GrandFamily AI | Practical Help from Nannie Where Do You Even Start When Raising a Grandchild Suddenly Costs More Than You Planned? When a grandchild moves into your home, the bills rarely wait for the paperwork. Groceries, clothes, school supplies, transportation, child care, medical appointments and all the ordinary expenses of raising a child begin right away. Updated for 2026 • By Jen, Nannie & Founder of GrandFamily AI If you are sitting with several government websites open and wondering which program applies to your family, this guide is for you. More than 2.7 million children in the United States are being raised by older family members, according to the National Institute on Aging. Grandfamilies form for many reasons, including a parent's illness, death, substance use, incarceration, instability or inability to provid...

  Kinship Care Week 2026   You Said Yes. Now What? Sometimes becoming a grandparent or kinship caregiver starts with one phone call. “Will you take them?” There is no preparation period. No handbook waiting on the kitchen counter. Life changes first. The questions arrive afterward. Kinship Care Week runs October 5 through 11, 2026. The observance is organized by Kinship , a charity serving kinship families in the United Kingdom. This year's theme is “Unplanned, Unprepared, Unwavering.” Although the campaign takes place across the Atlantic, those three words describe an experience familiar to grandparents and relatives here in the United States. September is National Kinship Care Month in the United States, and the U.S. Administration for Community Living reports about 2.5 million children across the country are being raised by grandparents...

  Kinship Care • Family Boundaries • Big Feelings When Their Parent Is Still in the Picture: Boundaries, Ambiguous Loss & Birth-Parent Dynamics in Kinship Care Loving your adult child and protecting the child in your care can exist at the same time. This guide gives grandparents and other kinship caregivers practical ways to handle difficult contact, confusing grief, visits, guilt, loyalty conflicts, and boundaries without turning every conversation into a battle. When you become the person raising a relative's child, family roles change overnight. You may still be Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie, Uncle, sister, or brother to the child's parent. At the same time, you have become the person responsible for bedtime, school, meals, medical care, emotional safety, rules, and what happens when something goes wrong. Those roles do not always fit neatly together. You might love the child's parent deeply and still know that conta...