Comments on: Multi Generation Friendships

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:13:25 +0000

another option is to host a christmas tea and only invite the neighborhood ladies. Maybe one of them will click with you. Kinda like speed dating only it’s over tea and with elderly women.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:12:21 +0000

that is wonderful that you recognize the need! We need multi-generation friendships! I watched my mother make friends with the elderly women in our neighborhood and spent hours playing with toys at their house while my mom drank tea with them. Probably met the needs of both my mother (in her mid-20s) and the elderly women.

I found a woman while I was in college through a Bible study. She was able to provide motherly advice I could handle because she wasn’t my mother.

Other options are a Ladies’ Aid sewing group, Garden Club, senior center or ask a woman a church. Sometimes elderly people think they’re not needed and forthrightness is required.

Looking forward to hearing how this is going.

And a good reminder that I should find someone.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:59:08 +0000

I used to teach in the classroom next to a great friend for four years. Then I moved and she retired. She was my sounding board, a fine example of a Christian woman, and my mom away from home. I miss her.

By: Leela

Leela — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:51:08 +0000

I would love a relationship like this. I have a few friends whom I would like to cultivate to be that way but not sure how to make the time for it. We are geographically far enough away that it means driving time and they don’t do email or talk on the phone that much.

I met someone, 92, wonderful lady a few weeks ago — I would like to cultivate her relationship somehow too.