If you’re a Baby Boomer like me, navigating relationships in today’s digital age might feel like trying to read a map upside down while driving 80 miles an hour. Everything is moving fast, people are glued to their screens, and meaningful conversations often get reduced to emojis or short, cryptic messages. I grew up in […]

Sometimes, grandfathers carry emotional burdens from their own childhoods, wars, losses, or tough upbringings that they never fully addressed. These emotional wounds—what psychologists might call generational trauma—can unknowingly affect how they relate to their grandkids. They might be stoic, distant, or emotionally unavailable, not out of lack of love, but because vulnerability was never modeled […]