Zap The Grandma Gap: Connect With Your Family By Connecting Them To Their Family History - Softcover

Meet Super Grandma. She is ready to show you all of her tried and tested activities for staying connected with your children and grandchildren by connecting them with their family history. Pick and choose from the multitude of ideas to find what will work best for your family. Zap the generation gaps in your family so that you and your family can feel the happiness and power that comes from knowing about your family's past. Super Grandma wants to help you connect to your family members by connecting them to the super grandmas and super grandpas of your past. (Every family has scoundrels and super heroes-if you haven't found any yet, keep looking.) Family history connects family members in a way that is personal and unique to your family. It gives youth the power to identify with personal heroes, learn life lessons without having to personally go through them, and gain a wise, broad perspective on life. Teaching your children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and even your brothers and sisters about their family history can create strong bonds in your family. The connections to your family's past become a framework to empower your relationships and strengthen your family's future.

Janet Hovorka is passionate about the nutrition family history brings to the soul of her family members. Understanding the good and the bad in her own family history has helped her relate to her family in a more healthy way. To help people share their family history with their family members, Janet and and her husband Kim Hovorka own Family ChartMasters (www.familychartmasters.com), an online genealogy chart printing service. Janet writes the award winning “The Chart Chick” blog (www.thechartchick.com), where she shares her experiments in getting her kids excited about their family history. Janet is currently serving as President of the Utah Genealogical Association, teaches genealogy courses at Salt Lake Community College and has presented 100s of lectures all over the country to help people find out more about their family’s history.