Grandfather Remembers: Memories for My Grandchild

I purchased a copy of this book for both my father and my father-in-law as Christmas gifts this year (along with the "Grandmother Remembers" for the grandmas!). I am currently pregnant, and wrote a little note "from the baby" asking each grandfather to write in their thoughts and memories to give to the baby next Christmas when he'll be around 7 months old. Both my dad and FIL were so excited to get the books. What a lasting, meaningful gift to share with their grandson! In it, there are so many cool things to write about with prompts. It moves sequentially, starting with their own ancestry and childhood, schooling, relationships, jobs and careers, meeting grandma, having their own children, and their thoughts on their grandchild. It has places to sprinkle in advice, wisdom, humor, and even photos. I certainly think this book is better-suited toward 'traditional' families, meaning those with grandparents who are still married. Although, they could certainly choose to leave out certain information if they wished. Looking back, I wish that I had something like this from my own grandparents. Preserving their words and memories long after they could share them themselves.

When our first grandchild was born, I received a grandmother gift: a copy of this book's companion (Grandmother Remembers). I was so pleased with it that I looked for a similar book for my husband, and was delighted to find Grandfather Remembers. For each succeeding grandchild, I have bought a new pair of these books. We take our time filling them in, and present them to the grandchild at a time when the child will personally enjoy them. (The reason I bought only one this time is that the one my husband was working on got damaged.) These excellent books can be filled in briefly or in minute detail (which is the way we do). We have enjoyed the process in each case, and our two eldest grandchildren (22 and 16) do treasure them. This pair was a special "Sweet Sixteen" gift for our granddaughter. The earlier pair was a Bar Mitzvah gift for our grandson. We have one more pair, which we'll work on in a leisurely way for our 7-year-old grandson, to be given at a future date.

It was larger than I expected it to be! Nice hardback book...This is a great gift idea and well put-together. The only minor "complaint" I would have is that I wish I could remove some of the pages. My parents just recently divorced and there are several pages all about the grandparents' wedding, first years, and all about how he feels about grandmother, etc. It'a not bad, I just wish it focused solely on the grandfather... otherwise I would have bought a book about the grandparentS. Nothing is perfect for any family dynamic, but being able to tweak a few things here and there would make this a five-star purchase.

I love it gave it to my father in law as a gift to make for my son and he cried lol it is the sweetest gift you can give a person bc it's the best gift they can give their grandkids..memories I do wish their was one available for step grandpas not that it should say that but just so it doesn't include so much about the parent in case they weren't around during the parents childhood my kids step grandpa is better than their actual grandpa he loves them so much and he let's everyone know

We lost my dad a little over a year ago and my daughter has been having a difficult time with his loss. Even at the young age of 4, she has weekly breakdowns over not being able to see him anymore. I bought this book in hopes that when she is sad, she can look at it in memory of him to help her through the difficult times. This book is wonderful, my mom and I worked together to fill out all the blanks of his childhood and his favorite memories and my daughter loves it. I definitely recommend buying this book for grandchildren if you have experienced the loss of a grandfather.

I have purchased many of these books ( Grandfather Remembers: Memories for My Grandchild , For My Grandchild: A Grandmother's Gift of Memory (AARP) , Grandmother Remembers: A Written Heirloom for My Grandchild , A Grandparent's Legacy: Your Life Story in Your Own Words , Memories for My Grandchild , A Grandparent's Book , Grandparents' Memory Book: Did You Really Walk Five Miles to School? ) because it's impossible to tell from reviews which ones will be good and the "Look Inside" is often unavailable or unhelpful. I will look at all of them and keep the one I like or make my own, depending on the results.Fourth & Fifth review: Grandfather Remembers: Memories for My Grandchild  and  Grandmother Remembers: A Written Heirloom for My Grandchild  are essentially the same book, so I will review them together. The biggest negative is that there is almost no space to write anything significant. At the most you are given three to four lines and a lot of space is wasted on the paper. For example, the "My Parents" section takes up only half of the 8.5x11 sheet of paper vertically and has 1.5" margins. The rest of the paper is grass and sky of a landscape.Also, the questions are sexist. For example, the parents page only asks what the father does for a living. It asks for the father's full name but only the mother's maiden name. The Grandfather Remembers book has a section called "Risks and Money Ventures" and the Grandmother Remembers book instead has the "Dear Relatives" section. Seems really stupid to me. I don't care if times were different "back then". I am sure women took risks all the time. Plus, this book is for my grandchild and both of my parents worked.

I was given a "Grandmother remembers" book as a gift and loved it so much I thought this would have been the same quality and an ideal gift. The quality was not the same however and it was much smaller.It didn't look worth the money and I had to buy another gift to give with it.

Fab book to note memories for grandkids. Well set out pages and places for photos too

I knew what this would be like as I also have Grandma Remembers. I would recommend although it is very American in terminology.

Fab book for memories I bought 2 was so good

Agift for a new 'Grandad' He loved it!