Websites for Grandparents

If you're a boomer, chances are you are a grandparent.  Of course the web has a place for you to become an even better grandparent ie: you will probably find a lot of ads for things your grandkids are going to like.  But there are also going to be some articles that may make you a better, if not happier about yourself, grandparent.

Grand Magazine calls itself the "official magazine for grandparents."  I like publications that call themselves "official."  I guess that makes their competitors "unofficial."  And they will have a new competitor in a couple of months called Grandparents.com.  They have already produced quite a few newsletters which you can subscribe to.

If I were Grand Magazine, even though they have 125,000 subscribers, I'd pay attention to the new kid on the block.  From just a few minutes that I spent on the 2 sites, Grandparents will probably have a much cleaner, Web 2.0 look to it when it launches and Grand Magazine seems to be stuck in the 90's with exactly what it is-a magazine with a web site.  Just because grandparents are older doesn't mean they don't want an attractive up to date looking website to browse.

Comments

[Allison]

Another site worth watching is EverythingGrandkids.com, looks like there is going to be some competition out there.