About The Grandparents Corner

I grew up in a full house. My parents, my sister, my brother, my grandmother, my grandfather — all under one roof. I loved it. Wouldn’t trade it for the world.

And sure, I loved my parents and everyone, but my grandma (sorry grandpa) was the centre of that world. No need to say anything else beside the fact that my firstborn is named after her 🙂

I have since built my own family, moved away, and made a life at a distance from where I grew up. My grandparents are gone now. But what remains is the wisdom they left behind, the way they loved us, and the relationship they built with my parents — which my parents are now doing their best to carry forward with my children.

This site started with watching that happen, and noticing one very specific problem…

...the internet is making my parents sweat.

Child picking cherry tomatoes from potted plants with basil and herbs in a backyard garden

Kids sitting at a small picnic table with glow sticks in a backyard lit by string lights at dusk

My grandmother didn’t know that sugar was not advised, that babies shouldn’t drink water, or that some of what she assumed was just common sense was contested by people with PhDs and podcast audiences….

None of that information existed in the form it exists today.
She relied on her instincts, her experience, and the people around her. And that was mostly enough.

Today’s grandparents don’t have that luxury. On one side: a sleep coach selling a guide on how to train babies to sleep independently. On the other: a different expert explaining why that approach is harmful.
A debate about whether babies should drink water. Another about when they shouldn’t. An argument about wake windows, feeding schedules, screen time, and whether the way you raised your own children was actually wrong.

This is overwhelming even for new parents, and for grandparents who just want to be helpful and present — it can feel impossible. Their own experience (your own experience!), which is real and valuable, suddenly feels like it doesn’t count.

What The Grandparents Corner actually is?

My name is Ana. I have spent years working in content and digital media — I understand how the internet works, how information travels, and how to tell the difference between something that is well-researched and something that just looks that way.

I started this site to do one specific thing: create a place where grandparents can find reliable, clear, respectful information without having to wade through content that wasn’t written for them.

Some of the articles here are written by me. Some come from my parents and my husband’s parents, who are living this right now and have things worth saying.

Others come from grandparents in our community whose experience and perspective I help translate into something the rest of the world can find and read.

They are not always comfortable writing for the internet. But they know things. I am here to bridge that gap.

Grandchild running along a winding flagstone path lined with lavender and low-growing plants in a front yard landscape, with grandfather following behind

Young grandchild climbing rocks in a front yard rock garden with river rocks, succulents, creeping phlox, and large boulders while grandfather watches

Grandfather and young grandchild sitting together in a low-maintenance front garden with creeping ground cover, lavender, mulch, and natural rock borders

A small backyard play zone with an outdoor rug, toy baskets, and a sail shade for cover

kids playing in backyard under the shade

kids playing in the water in the backyard

One thing we don’t do here

We don’t make things up. No invented personal stories, no fake quotes from “readers,” no content that sounds warm and personal but was assembled from thin air.
The Grandparents Corner is built on real experience, real voices, and properly researched information. That is the only version of this site I was interested in building.

A small, honest corner of the internet

My sister Maria is part of this too. We have watched our own parents navigate the experience of being grandparents in a world that gives them more information than they need and less support than they deserve. We wanted to do something about that.

This is it. We hope you find something useful here and that it feels like it was written for you, because it was.

— Ana Founder, The Grandparents Corner

Get in touch

If you have a question you’d like us to look into about health, family, technology, travel, or anything else, we’d genuinely like to hear it.

The best articles on this site have come from questions people were embarrassed to ask anywhere else.