Embark on a journey of connection and understanding with Where Two Worlds Meet: A Guide to Connecting with Your Teenage Grandchildren, a guide crafted specifically for those seeking to strengthen bonds with their teenage grandchildren. Delve into the complexities of adolescent life while rediscovering the invaluable role you play as a grandparent.
Empowering for Parents and Grandparents!
With a keen focus on empowering parents and grandparents alike, this book serves as a beacon of wisdom and support. Through insightful exploration of the teenage years, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the developmental milestones shaping your grandchildren’s lives. Drawing from your own experiences as a teen and a former parent of teens, you’ll empathize with the challenges your teenage grandchildren and their parents face, fostering compassion and understanding rather than frustration or judgment.
Enter Your Teenager’s World
Discover practical strategies for entering the world of your teenage grandchildren, fostering open communication, and imparting valuable life skills and values. Moreover, this transformative guide doesn’t stop at building connections with your grandchildren. With three dedicated chapters on nurturing relationships with the parents of your grandchildren, you’ll learn the importance of boundaries, forgiveness, and communication in creating a harmonious family dynamic. As the conduit between the generations, parents of teens will love this book as well.
Unlock the transformative power of intergenerational relationships as you unleash your creativity, share your skills, and impart your passions to the next generation. With “Where Two Worlds Meet,” you’ll embark on a journey of connection, growth, and love that transcends generations.
Here’s What Readers Say
“This book is a gem filled with insights and wisdom – not just for grandparents – but to all who want to help restore family bonds and values so sorely needed in America. I recommend it to grandparents and non grandparents alike and to all who relate to youth (parents too). Thank you Jerry and Deanna for your experience and for sharing it with us.”
– Lewis Bernstein, Formerly at Sesame Workshop
“This wonderful book, Where Two Worlds Meet: A Guide to Connecting with Your Teenage Grandchildren, is full of real world tools to help the generations find common ground. From letters to organized meetings, to determining a family legacy, these methods are sure to bring eager grandparents and busy older grandchildren together around important common goals. I recommend it to all grandparents!”
– Elizabeth LaBan, Bestselling Author
“If you are looking for valuable patterns for enhancing relationships between grandparents and teenage grandchildren—and for experiences, ideas, and stories galore, particularly about creating three-generational values and preserving cultural values, this book should be on your list.”
—Linda and Richard Eyre, New York Times #1 Bestselling Authors
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About the Authors, Jerry Witkovsky and Deanna Shoss
JERRY WITKOVSKY (MSW, University of Illinois) is a beloved mentor to thousands of individuals and generations of families, thanks to forty-seven years of professional leadership, eighteen of them as General Director of the Jewish Community Centers of Chicago. In 1995 he was named one of the city’s “Most Effective Non-Profit CEOs” by Crain’s Chicago Business.
Remembering Jerry, March 29, 1928 – May 26, 2025
Since his 1997 retirement, Jerry has focused his considerable energies on grandparenting facilitation—helping multigenerational families work (and play) together to create a rich family life. He has partnered with JCC and YMCA to create a writing prompt program serving over four hundred grandparents on three continents as well as a virtual improv program with UK’s Nursery Theatre. He currently spearheads a growing number of school-based programs designed to strengthen connections between grandparents and their teenagers.
DEANNA SHOSS (MA, DePaul University) is a writer, communications leader, and intercultural practitioner based in Chicago. Her work explores how people navigate difference, make meaning across cultures and generations, and learn to communicate with intention in an increasingly complex world.
As the founder of Intercultural Talk, Inc., Deanna has spent her career helping individuals and organizations bridge gaps—between ideas and action, tradition and change, and personal experience and public life. Her perspective is shaped by work across public service, nonprofit leadership, and private-sector communications, as well as a long-standing interest in how systems, language, and power intersect.
In Where Two Worlds Meet, Deanna takes an intergenerational lens to one of the most important relationships we have: how we connect, communicate, and understand one another across differences in our own families. Drawing on professional experience and personal reflection, her writing favors clarity over certainty and curiosity over easy conclusions.