On Becoming a Grandparent: A Diary of Family Discovery

by Alma H. Bond

When Alma Bond, a practicing psychoanalyst for 38 years, discovered she was to be a grandparent, she started a diary to record the child's intrauterine development and any psychological changes within... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882593081
• ISBN13: 9781882593088
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Bridge Works Publishing Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A must for soon-to-be-grandparents

When Alma Bond, a practicing psychoanalyst of 38 years, discovered she was to be a grandparent, she kept a diary to record the child's intrauterine development as well as any psychological changes within her family. What she discovered was far more than she had expected.Suddenly, or so it seems, our children are all grown-up & having children of their own. Whatever happened to all those fond, dim memories of their childhoods? Where were we, as parents? What are our children's memories of what we were doing in our own prime of life?This is a sincere record of the author's insights, her musings on what she learnt from the travails of her patients' lives, her examination of her feelings toward her own mother, as well as her very real wisdom about how our minds work through our strugglesA fascinating journal of exploration & the perfect gift for anyone about to graduate into grandparenthood!