Guests:
Patricia Anne Jarvis
*Professor of Psychology at Illinois State University
*Specializes in Life Span Social Development
Marguerite Kelly
*Washington Post family columnist
*Grandmother of 8
Suzette Hayden Elgin
*Author of The Grandmother Principles (Abbeville Publishers, 2002)
Carole B. Cox
*Professor of Social Work at Fordham University, Graduate School of Social Service
*Author, Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A Training Manual for Group Leaders (Springer Publishing, 2002)
Researchers are now saying that grandmothers have played a powerful role in human evolution. But for anyone who's ever had a grandmother, you probably already knew that. Join Neal Conan for a discussion of grandmothers past, present and how to be one.
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