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Graceful aging starts when you’re 45.
Aging and Grandparenting: Quality aging requires that you embark on a new path in order to reap all of the rewards from aging that you can. Everyone ages: how you fare when you arrive at retirement age is up to you. There are definite pluses as we age. Start when middle-aged to gain those rewards. |
Grandparenting Graceful Aging Starts When You Are 45!
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Everyone ages: how you fare when you arrive at retirement age is up to you. There are definite pluses as we age. Start when middle-aged to gain those rewards.
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When you were a child, education was stressed to you as the jumping off point for your career. That education and the ensuing career would dictate much of what you got from life.
Quality aging requires that you embark on a new path in order to reap all of the rewards from aging that you can. We will all get there: how you fare when you arrive is up to you. By the time you are 45 years old, you should be getting a glimmer of what age has in store for you. Certainly it should be dawning on you that you will not have enough time to do everything in life. Therefore, you must do what is important. And aging gracefully needs to go to the top of your list! Despite what the media, the cosmetics/fashion industry, the diet industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and now the cosmetic surgery medical establishment would have us believe, there are many gains as we age. Gains as we age A few of those gains are:
Rules for graceful aging: 1. Develop and maintain a strong social support network of family, friends, and colleagues. 2. Develop a personal exercise program combining aerobics and weight work. Hire a personal trainer to get you started. 3. Take charge of your brain. Make an active commitment to learning and growth. According to research on lifespan development: IF you continue to use your brain and develop your intellect and IF you remain socially connected and active, you can actually increase your IQ scores as you age. 4. Take charge of your financial future. Plan, plan, and plan. If you are single, don’t count on getting married to finance your old age. You are on your own! If you are married, learn what is going on with your finances. If you are female, statistics say you will spend seven to fifteen years or more as a widow, depending upon the age difference between you and your husband. You will probably be on your own for a long time. Plan, plan, plan. 5. Eat a low-fat, high-fiber diet. Learn to live on fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes as much as possible. Plan a few days a week that include no animal products, not even dairy. 6. Stay aware of the latest nutritional information. 7. Don’t fall for fad diets. When something sounds too good to be true such as The Atkins’ Diet, it usually is. When something sounds too good to be true and it is too complicated for you to comprehend easily, such as Sears’ Zone Diet, be doubly wary. 8. Remember that the pharmaceutical industry makes money from selling drugs. Read, study, and form your own opinions about taking cholesterol, blood pressure, estrogen and other "old-age" medicines. Very few long-term studies are available to show the results of these medicines. The industry does extensive advertising to the medical profession pushing these drugs. The industry also does excellent advertising and good PR work with the public in support of these drugs. Your doctor is not a genius. He/she can not possibly keep up with everything and most rely on the pharmaceutical industry for much of their information. It is your responsibility to read, study, and keep up with the truth for yourself. 9. Practice light to no drinking. 10. No smoking, no matter what. 11. Remain goal oriented. Regardless of your age, still set one, five, ten and twenty-year goals. Keep on growing! |
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Letters from Surfer Grandparents. | Open-Minded in Changing World. | April Fool’s Letter to Grandkids. |
Grandparents as Mentors. | Depression and Grandkids. | Joy of Reading. |
Time: There is Never Enough. | Subscribe to Free Grandparenting eNewsletter, | Bonding with Grandkids. |
Grandparents’ Birthday Book: A Great (Free) Gift! | Grandparenting and Aging Table of Contents. | Value and Cultural Differences. |
Grandparents Seeking Advice from Others. | Graceful Aging Starts Early. | Getting Grandchildren to Obey Rules at Your House. |
What Did You Name Your Grandparents? | Rules for Graceful Aging. | Sharing Ideas: Staying in Touch. |
More Names of Grandparents. | Reversing Heart Disease. | When You Were Little… |
Grandchildren. | Avoiding Chronic Diseases. | Grandparenting. |
Grandparents’ visitation rights: Table of Contents. | Avoiding Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Osteoporosis, Diabetes. | Entertaining Visiting Grandchildren: Table of Contents for All Ages. |
Grandchild’s Right to Visitation. | Avoiding Cancer. | Grandkids Funtime: Ages 3-5. |
Alternatives to court. | Stress and Aging. | Grandkids Funtime: Ages 5-8. |
Going to court for visitation | Depression and Aging. | Grandkids Funtime: Ages 8-12. |
If all else fails… | Rocking Chair and Aging. | Grandkids Funtime: Ages 12-15. |
Divorce: You, your children, their children: Table of contents. |
Grandparents Using Time-Out for Discipline: Table of Contents. |
Grandkids Funtime: Ages 15 and up. |
Grandchildren of Divorce Have Moral Rights. | Timeout Defined. | Grandkids & Frankenfoods Table of Contents. |
Stepping In After Divorce. | Timeout Information. | What Is Genetic Engineering? |
When Your Children Divorce. | Timeout Locations. | What Are Potential Benefits/Risks? |
Camping with Grandkids: Table of Contents. | Timeout and Ages of Children. | Promises and Realities of GMOs. |
Make Your Home a Summer Camp. | Timeout for the Active Child. | Environmental Concerns. |
Camping with Grandkids. | To Grandfather’s House We Go: Table of Contents. | Grandparents Raising Grandkids: Table of Contents. |
Checklist for Camping. | Nana’s & Poppy’s Week. | Role of Grandparent Raising Grandchild. |
News. | Activities for Kids at Grandparents’ Home. | At Grandma’s House We Stay. |
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