If your children haven't spent much time with their grandparents lately, use the holidays to get the family back on track. McQuade-Lancaster suggests planning some special activities to keep everyone happy. And have your children return the favor and teach their grandparents how to send e-mail. Grandma can write, and your budding Rembrandt can illustrate. Draw a family tree.
Grandparents can fill in the murky details of twice-removed cousins.
Use old family photos for leaves. Spend some time in the kitchen. Grandchild and grandparent can both keep journals and videotape greetings and mail them to each other once a month. Grandparents can send video or audio tapes of bedtime stories or send a package of seeds for the child to plant. Teach your children to honor, love and cherish their grandparents.