Becoming Grandma: The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting (Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction) - Hardcover

The respected journalist describes the transformative experience of becoming a grandparent, sharing personal anecdotes while drawing on interviews with scientists, doctors, and celebrity friends to explore the evolutionary and anthropological influences of grandparenting.

"After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl says the most vivid and transforming experience of her life ... was becoming a grandmother. Using her 60 Minutes skills, she explores how grandmothering changes a woman's life, interviewing her friends like Whoopi Goldberg, her colleagues like Diane Sawyer, and the proverbial woman next door. On top of these personal accounts, she interviews scientists and doctors about physiological changes in women when they have grandchildren, anthropologists about why there are grandmothers in evolutionary terms, and psychiatrists about the therapeutic effects of grandchildren on both grandmothers and grandfathers. [She also] shares her stories about her own life now with two granddaughters, Jordan and Chloe, how her relationship with her daughter Taylor has changed, and how being a grandfather has affected her husband"--