The Recipe for Being a Cool Grandpa with Greg Payne

The Recipe for Being a Cool Grandpa with Greg Payne

Update: 2025-11-01
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Spoiler alert: there's no perfect set of ingredients that will make anyone the perfect "cool grandpa". However, there are general guidelines that will get most people well along the way - at least for the parts in their control.

What's key? Communication, boundaries, having fun. Here's the 'recipe', if you will, in a nutshell. (Plus a little self-reflection!)

So here's the 'recipe' from Cool Grandpa Greg Payne on how to put the guidelines into practice for your own family, including the considerations from both sides of the grandparent-parent fence

Enjoy!

Full show notes: fourthtrimesterpodcast.com

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The Recipe for Being a Cool Grandpa with Greg Payne

The Recipe for Being a Cool Grandpa with Greg Payne