This inexpensive Helpful Grandparent's Positive Influence Tool Kit can help you make a real contribution to your grandchildren's success. Isn't that what you really want to do?

6 dialogue game grids to help your grandchildren learn to talk and think for success

Our Favorites (Grandparenting Conversations Game Grid # 1)
It's a lot of fun to hear about 36 of each other's favorite things.

What is your favorite ice cream flavor?

Who are your favorite superhero?

and 34more !

Don't You Just Wish? (Grandparenting Conversations Game Grid # 2)
Find out a lot about one another with these 36 fantasy questions.

What would the best birthday party ever look like?

In what fairy tale would you like to have lived?

and 34more !

Let Me Tell You ! (Grandparenting Conversations Game Grid # 3)
This grid helps you talk together with 36 fun and meaningful items.

The chore I like best is . . .

Once in a while I get angry when . . .

and 34more !

What's Good About . . . ? (Grandparenting Conversations Game Grid # 4)
Build "Can Do" attitudes by thinking together of 3 good things about these 36 challending items.

Name 3 good things about taking care of toys.

Name 3 good things about mistakes.

and 34more !

Solving Problems (Grandparenting Conversations Game Grid # 5)
Develop the kind of thinking that focuses on solving problems rather than complaining or giving up.

"How would you solve (handle) this problem?" "What would you do?"

a stray dog, obviously someone's pet, hangs around your house

your two best friends are not speaking to each other

and 34more !

Great Thinking ! (Grandparenting Conversations Game Grid # 6)
Dialogue about these 36 values and instill discernment and good judgment.

What do you think is valuable (good) about complimenting others?

What do you think is valuable (good) about being thrifty?

and 34more !

Successful Dialogue Booklet

Learn how to use dialogue to help your grandchildren grow in many thinking and talking skills. Talking builds many skills necessary for scholastic and career success.

Consider this quote from a news magazine called The Week, 9/5/03.

Don't expect schools to "fix" the legions of poor kids who are flunking their lessons, said William Raspberry in The Washington Post. Today, every urban school district in America is facing enormous pressure to raise the academic achievement of kids from impoverished families. But the hard truth is that schools just can't make up for what children's parents fail to provide—and an exhaustive study proves it. Researchers Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley spent countless hours with both middle-class and poor families, carefully observing the interactions between parents and kids. They found that the most important predictor of academic success is how much verbal stimulation parents provide early in a child's life. A child whose parents talk to him often, using large, varied vocabularies, almost always does far better in school than a child whose parents themselves are inarticulate. And in professional and working-class homes, parents speak directly to their children more than twice as often. the difference between the amount of stimulation that poor and middle-class kids receive, the researchers concluded, "is so huge as to be essentially unbridgeable." So educators and politicians can speak all they like about raising test scores and leaving no child behind. Until the nation's underclass learns what it is doing wrong, our society's best-intentioned efforts are doomed to failure.

Memory Recording Worksheets

If you want to keep track of what each of your grandchildren say when you talk to them as well as how their answers change over time, these worksheets allow you to keep a record.

Your grandchildren's parents probably do not have the time to be this careful in keeping track of thinking and maturing.

Affirmation Planner

It is difficult to name all of the good qualities of each of your grandchildren. But, it is extremely important for them to get broad affirmation. The Affirmation Planner lists over 100 character qualities so that you can identity those you want to make sure each of your grandkids know they have. You will also see some that need your encouragement for them to blossom in your grandchild. (By the way, I, Dick Wulf, should know. I wrote a book about this titled Find Yourself – Give Yourself published in 1983. That's where the list of good qualities comes from.)

2 activity lists to give you more ideas for having fun together

Here are 123 activities to add some variety in what you do with your grandchildren.

These communication aids were designed by Dick Wulf, MSW and Jean Wulf, MSW, clinical social workers and psychotherapists for over 60 years combined. Dick is also a published game designer and published author. Jean and Dick have been married since 1965, have three grown children and three grandchildren.

Dick and Jean did family pretty good. Their family was written up in a half-page newspaper article many years ago when their three daughters were in grade school. Now they are trying their best to be good gandparents.

Recent research has documented that children who talk in their family do better in school. This Helpful Grandparent's Tool Kit can supplement what is being done by your grandchildren's parents

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