How to Celebrate the Growth of Your Grandchildren

It's great to have time to consider how to celebrate the growth of your grandchildren. When you are in midst of an active parenting experience you can be too tied up with making lunches, setting up carpools or putting the strong arm on reluctant students to find time to think of fun ways to celebrate their growth. But when your grand kids come along at just about the time you are settling in to retirement you realize that planning how to celebrate the growth of your grandchildren can be a great hobby.

Celebrating the growth of your grandchildren is a whole different ballgame from celebrating their advancing years. After all we all know how to make or buy a cake and some ice cream. But celebrating the growth of your grandchildren means finding unique ways to mark the interior explosion in each grandchild that allows them to soar inch by exciting inch until the magic day comes when they pass their grandparents and are effectively on top of the world.

A common way to mark the growth of your grandchildren only requires a the back of a cellar door, an unseen portion of wall or any selected spot insider or out that generally remains unseen. When your grandchild is old enough to appreciate the concept of height, which seems to get younger with each succeeding grandchild, select together a place to begin marking his or her growth on a regular basis. Then begin planning fun ways to celebrate the growth in turn of each and every grandchild.

The early celebrations can be as simple as a hug, ceremonial lift into the air, or the sharing of lots of attention about the size of your grandchild. As the measuring continues there are a few other ways that you can celebrate the growth of your grandchild. One way is to give your grandchild a special memento of a particular height by purchasing or creating a gift that is as tall as he or she is. This doesn't have to be something expensive. But it should be something that shows some effort or thought on your part and a real desire to somehow connect with your grandchild on a very basic level.

So how about giving your grandchild a pile of boxes equal to his or her height that contain a favorite cereal or healthy snack food. Or what about a new kid safe step ladder that can reach his or her new height? Got a musical grandchild, then a collapsible music stand set at the new height of your grandchild can be a big hit. There are as many possibilities as there are grandkids.

Don't be put off on the idea of celebrating the growth of your grandchild because you don't go for the simple gift giving idea. If you and your grandchild share an interest in crafts, why not make a habit of taking a photo at each measuring session and then putting the results of your picture taking together in an album or scrapbook
you can share together. It will be fun in the making and a wonderful keepsake for you and some day for him or her.

Lots of kids will love celebrating their growing adventures with a trip to the store with their grandparents for a bigger "something" anything to mark the occasion. An added inch after all can require a new jacket, bigger socks, a new pair of mittens, a larger hat or a book or toy more appropriate for a person of such advanced stature.

The best thing about keeping track of the growth of your grandchild is that you can do it whenever the spirit moves you and your grandchild happens to be present. Measuring your grandchild is something you can manipulate to fit your schedule rather than, as with a birthday, something which necessarily adheres to the calendar. As a result grandparents can measure as often as they want, it just makes spoiling your grandchildren a lot easier and a little more legal.