Published June 11, 2026
After more than a decade writing, speaking, and working with families across the country, I’ve come to understand one thing above all else: the grandparent-grandchild relationship doesn’t live or die between grandparent and grandchild. It lives or dies between grandparent and parent.
That insight is the foundation of my fifth book, The Bridge to Your Grandchildren: What Their Parents Want You to Know, which is available today on Amazon Kindle for $4.99. The paperback edition ($13.99) will follow within the week.
This book has been building inside me for years. It crystallized during a conversation with Evonne Varady on The Rebel Rootz Show, when she asked me what I thought was the biggest mistake grandparents make in connecting with their grandchildren. My answer – 71 seconds long – became a TikTok and Instagram moment that reached nearly 2 million people. The comment section stopped me cold. Grandmothers, daughters-in-law, adult children from every kind of family, all saying the same thing: “I wish my parents knew this.”
That response told me this book needed to exist.
The Bridge to Your Grandchildren is written for both generations – grandparents who want deeper access and connection, and parents who feel unseen, disrespected, or sidelined by their own parents or in-laws. Both groups want the same thing: what’s best for the children. But too often, they can’t find their way to each other.
This book is the bridge between them.
Inside, you’ll find practical guidance on:
The book moves through 16 chapters, fromFinding Yourself on the Bridge toWhat Will Be Your Legacy? – and closes with a concise ten-point guide and a direct call to action.
During my Rebel Rootz interview, Evonne asked me a question I wasn’t expecting to land the way it did.
“What do you think is the biggest mistake grandparents make in connecting with their grandchildren?”
I said:
“Forgetting to take really good care of their mother. The daughter-in-law or daughter is the queen on the throne. She controls whether or not you will see your grandchildren – through thick and thin, through marriage and divorce, through anything. People tend to side with their son in a divorce, and then the daughter-in-law goes off and decides they’re out of the picture.”
1.9 million views. 220,700 likes. 2,044 comments. Grandparents, mothers, and adult children from around the world, all responding to the same truth they had never heard said so plainly.
That moment confirmed what this book needed to say – and who needed to hear it.
The Bridge to Your Grandchildren is for grandparents who want more access and don’t know why they’re not getting it. It’s for parents who love their own parents but feel like they’re constantly managing them. It’s for adult children who want to gift their parents a new way of seeing the relationship.
And it’s for any family that has ever felt like they were speaking different languages – and wondered if there was a way back to each other.
There is. That’s what this book is about.
The Kindle edition is available now on Amazon for $4.99. The paperback edition ($13.99) will be available within the week.
ASIN: B0H2QYS1YC | 205 pages | Published June 11, 2026
