Grandparenting Books

bleu928

Does anyone know of a good grandparenting book?  I'm looking for something for me and/or the grandparents-to-be.  Both of our sets of parents will be new grandparents when our baby is born and I kind of want to be on the same page of what to expect of each other.  I want to know what level of involvement is appropriate from a grandparent and I want to be sure THEY know what level is appropriate.  I didn't really have any kind of relationship with my grandparents, but my MIL was really, really close with her grandmother - so we are going into this whole new relationship with very different experiences and expectations.

Our parents are VERY different from each other and I'm already stressed out about DH's mom thinking she's going to just take over our baby.

dmstar79

My mother has it in her head that she'll be taking the kid during the day for walks in the park and shopping trips.  She cracks me up.

mistresscox

I'm not sure there's going to be a book for that because each family is different.  It totally depends on your relationship with each grandparent-to-be.  Some people are really close with one set of parents, some with the others-some with both, some with neither set.  You just have to decide what is going to work for your family individually. 

If you are really concerned you can sit down and talk with each one, but I think taking everything one step at a time is the way to go.  Our parents are both very different as well and DH and I definately prefer being around my parents, but there's no way we would "establish" that with his parents.  Ultimately it will just be up to us how much they all see the baby and what their involvement is.