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How to navigate age differences when raising grandchildren

I am seventy-two and raising my four-year-old granddaughter and the other parents at preschool are all thirty years younger and I feel like an alien at pickup.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Generational isolation compounds the already overwhelming task of unexpected late-life parenting.

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